With the on-going discussion regarding the security concerns of SOAP::Lite on this site, use.perl.org and others, it is welcoming to see the release of version 0.55 of this module which addresses these issues. The changelog for SOAP::Lite version 0.55 is shown below:

0.55 Mon Apr 15 22:20:39 2002
        ! fixed security vulnerability with fully qualified method nam
+es
          (thanks to Randal Schwartz, Ilya Martynov and many others)
        ! fixed problem with TCP transport and SSL (thanks to Chris Hu
+rd)
        ! fixed TCP transport to specify correct length with utf8 stri
+ngs
          (thanks to Robin Fuller)
        ! fixed incorrect encoding when parameters list includes undef
+ined values
          (thanks to Chris Radcliff)
        ! updated 'xmlsoap' prefix (thanks to Pierre Denis)
        ! updated MIME parser to accept messages that start with 'From
+'
          (thanks to Chris Davies)
        + added check for TCP transport on Mac (thanks to Robin Fuller
+)
        + added check for shutdown() method on AIX (thanks to Jos Clij
+mans)
        + added check for blocking() method in TCP transport 
          (thanks to Jos Clijmans)
        + optimized parsing strings with entity encoding (thanks to Ma
+thieu Longtin)
        + added check for entity size for CGI transport ($SOAP::Consta
+nt::MAX_CONTENT_SIZE)
          (thanks to J. Klunder)
        + added example (google.pl)
        + updated tests and examples with new endpoints
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Thanks to merlyn, IlyaM and the many others who have helped Paul with this release and it is hoped at last that much of the FUD that has seemed to circulate within the Perl community regarding this module (1, 2) over the last couple of weeks can now be put to rest.