Soap::Lite a web service not available collapses a cgi?

Hello. Here is my problem:
   I have a web service, I kwow its address, but before I use it I want to
know if it's online. So I made a method named 'isAvailable' which
returns 'on' and if the web service is not available it returns nothing.
Okey. The problem is that I invoke this method from a perl cgi and when the
method is invoked and it isn't found (the web service is not available
because the server is down, etc.. ), I think SOAP::Lite makes a 'die'
command somewhere and my .cgi dies too and nothing gets printed afterwards
and this is not what I want! :( . There is any way to make SOAP::Lite
not 'die' on my cgi? Or, there is other method that I could use to find out
if a web service is available (from a perl cgi).

                                          Thank you.