[DAS] Ensembl via SOAP

[Alan Robinson]

SOAP::Lite was reported to have a "serious security loop hole" last month
("In short, SOAP::Lite allows to call any Perl subroutine on side of
SOAP::Lite based server"):

  http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/09/000212

Please make sure you've applied the appropriate patches, etc.


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On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> My experience with SOAP::Lite has been that it is non-trivial to work 
> backwards from the Perl object model to the XSL.  I ended up writing an 
> axis-equivalent in Perl so that I could watch the objects on the wire and 
> reverse-engineering it from there.