Base64 encoding of all MIME parts with attachments.

Hi there, I'm trying to use SOAP to interface with an antivirus package my client is using, but I'm having no luck. I noticed that someone has had previous problems [1], but the fix they used doesn't seem to be working for me. Basically, I have to put the file in the SOAP request. This gets base64 encoded, but then so does the body. I'm doing: $client = new SOAP_Client("http://example.com"); $client->setOpt('attachment', 'Mime'); $attachment = new SOAP_Attachment('file', 'text/plain', 'blar.txt'); $result = $client->call('scanFile', $parameters = array($attachment), 'urn:MYAV'); If I decode the first part of the request, it looks perfectly formatted according to what the server expects (SOAP::Lite), but I don't understand why it's encoding it. I've tried going into Base.php and adding double quotes around "text/xml", as well as changing the encoding to 8bit. No such luck. I have been given a PERL script that works: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use SOAP::Lite +trace => 'debug'; use MIME::Entity; my $HOST = "http://example.com";

	my $NS     = "urn:MYAV";

my $FILE = shift; my $ent = MIME::Entity->build(

	        Type => 'image/gif',
	        Encoding => 'base64',
	        Path => $FILE,
	        Filename => $FILE,
	        Disposition => 'attachment',
	        'Content-Location' => $FILE,

);

        my $soap = SOAP::Lite
        ->readable(1)
        ->uri($NS)
        ->parts($ent)
        ->proxy($HOST);
        my $som = $soap->scanFile(
                SOAP::Data->name("file")->attr({'href' => $FILE})
        );

1; Any ideas? I'd really appreciate your help. Regards, Nathan de Vries. [1] http://www.codecomments.com/archive220-2004-4-165156.html