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After I did that, the requests went through fine. As for SSL, unless Tomcat handles the SSL I don't believe there is a way to connect via SSL to Tomcat - ie if Apache is handling the SSL, then I don't believe you can connect over https 
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From Seth Theriault: my $loginURI = "https://my.sakai.server/sakai-axis/SakaiLogin.jws?wsdl"; and see no problems. |
Thanks Seth. Maybe it was just the UNE server setup that was presenting difficulties for me?!
A caveat with Perl and Web Services
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