perl SOAP::Lite and file encoding

Actually, the methods that use parameters with char[] data types will result in a SOAP type of base64Binary. Looking at a soap trace on the download_file method, the resulting data looks something like this:

< E:Envelope
    xmlns:E="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:A="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:y="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:iControl="urn:iControl"
    E:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" >
< E:Body >
< m:download_fileResponse xmlns:m="urn:iControl:System/ConfigSync" >
  < return s:type="iControl:System.ConfigSync.FileTransferContext" >
    < file_data s:type="y:base64Binary" >YXV0aCBwYXJ0aXRpb24gQ29tbW9uIHsKICAgIGRlc2N...."< /file_data > 
    < chain_type s:type="iControl:Common.FileChainType" >FILE_FIRST_AND_LAST< /chain_type >
  < /return >
  < file_offset s:type="y:long" >7656< /file_offset >
< /m:download_fileResponse >
< /E:Body >
< /E:Envelope >

SOAP::Lite sees the "base64Binary" type and knows to decode it. Maybe I'm missing something...

-Joe