I've got things working with the code snippet above, and I'm onto a new "problem":

my $soap_request = <<END;

POST /insuranceClaims HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.7.2.33
Content-Type: Multipart/Related; boundary=MIME_boundary; type=text/xml
+;
        start="<cid:foo4\@bar.net>"
Content-Length: 1024
SOAPAction: http://10.7.2.33:2738/Hello
Content-Description: This is the optional message description.

--MIME_boundary
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-ID: <cid:foo4\@bar.net>
Content-Location: http://10.7.2.33:2738/Hello

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/env
+elope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:hi>
        <upload_file href="http://10.7.2.33:2738/upload_file.txt"/>
        <name>Thomas</name>
</ns1:hi>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

--MIME_boundary
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-ID: <http://10.7.2.33:2738/upload_file.txt>
Content-Location :http://10.7.2.33:2738/upload_file.txt

...binary TIFF image...
--MIME_boundary--

END
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This time I'm not using SOAP::Lite because of it's lack for multipart MIME messages/Attachments. What that has done, is helped me learn a lot more about this stuff. ;)

It's just that now SOAP replies with "Cannot find 'start' parameter in multipart MIME message". Bah.

if (!$one_thing){$it=$another";}

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