First WSDL Test Failed with SOAP::Lite

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use the service() function to WSDL to call a Web service. Test failed with incorrect Envelope namespace.

According to SOAP::Lite 0.710 manual, WSDL is supported with the service() function. Since get GetSpeech Web service provides WSDL at http://www.xmlme.com/WSShakespeare.asmx?WSDL, I wrote my first SOAP::Lite WSDL client program like this:

#- GetSpeech_WSDL_Test.pl
#- Copyright (c) 2009 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#- All rights reserved
#
   use SOAP::Lite +trace;
   my $result = SOAP::Lite
      ->service('http://www.xmlme.com/WSShakespeare.asmx?WSDL')
      ->readable('true')
      ->GetSpeech('To be, or not to be');

The code looks simple. But it is not working:

POST http://www.xmlme.com/WSShakespeare.asmx HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
Content-Length: 831
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "http://xmlme.com/WebServices/GetSpeech"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
    xmlns:tm="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/"
    xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/"
    xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/"
    soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
    xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:tns="http://xmlme.com/WebServices">
  <soap:Body>
    <tns:GetSpeech>
      <Request xsi:type="s:string">To be, or not to be</Request>
    </tns:GetSpeech>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
...
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Cache-Control: private
Connection: close
Date: ... 2009
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Length: 1106
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: ... 2009
Client-Peer: 
Client-Response-Num: 1
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Header>
  <soap12:Upgrade
    xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
    <soap12:SupportedEnvelope qname="soap:Envelope"
      xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" />
    <soap12:SupportedEnvelope qname="soap12:Envelope"
      xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" />
  </soap12:Upgrade>
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
  <soap:Fault>
    <faultcode>soap:VersionMismatch</faultcode>
    <faultstring>
      System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException:
      Possible SOAP version mismatch: 
      Envelope namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/
        was unexpected. 
        Expecting http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapServerProtocol.CheckHelperVersion
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapServerProtocol.ReadParameters()
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebServiceHandler.CoreProcessRequest(
    </faultstring>
    <detail />
  </soap:Fault>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

The error message tells me that:

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