OVERVIEW This Version: 0.55-6 SOAP::Lite (http://www.soaplite.com/) is a SOAP Toolkit that allows users to create SOAP clients and services. As of June 12, 2002, MIME support in SOAP::Lite was minimal. It could parse MIME formatted messages, but the data contained in those attachments was "lost." This Perl module, patches SOAP::Lite so that those MIME attachments are stored and placed into a SOAP::SOM object. PREREQUISITES You must first install SOAP::Lite prior to installing SOAP::MIME, as SOAP::MIME is a patch to SOAP::Lite. SOAP::Lite version 0.55 required. You can install SOAP::Lite easily, by downloading the module from http://soaplite.com/ or as you would install any perl module library, by running these commands: If you have CPAN.pm installed and are connected to the Internet: perl -MCPAN -e shell > install SOAP::Lite or even perl -MCPAN -e 'install SOAP::Lite' INSTALLATION Install SOAP::MIME just as you would any other Perl module: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Use nmake instead of make on Windows platform. DOCUMENTATION See lib/SOAP/Lite.pm for an overview of the library. Documentation is included in modules and scripts. These are normally converted to manual pages and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract and read documentation from the module files directly. LIMITATIONS - This implementation patches SOAP::Lite. But 'use'ing it, you completely override functions found in SOAP::Lite. This may produce weird behavior if you are not using attachments. What 'wierd' means, I don't know. But if you find something, please file a bug in sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapmime SUPPORT Feel free to send mail directly to author with your comments, suggestions, bug reports and complaints. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2002-2003 majordojo.com. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. AUTHOR Byrne Reese (soapmime at majordojo.com)