In support of the O'Reilly book Programming Web Services with XML-RPC, I explore the recently released XMLRPC::Lite module, which is bundled with SOAP::Lite. As a change of pace, this article focuses on handling binary data with base64. Want more? Ok, there's a little Python code there too.
http://web.oreilly.com/news/xmlrpc_0701.html
Man, I forgot to post the URL to the article at first! Glad slash allows articles to be edited after posting!