Bug #43585 for SOAP-Lite: "Use of uninitialized value in pattern match" in Lite.pm

Each time a SOAP call is made to an Apache/mod_perl web server implementing SOAP::Lite, a warning is dumped into the Apache error log: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Lite.pm line 2619. at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Lite.pm line 2619 SOAP::Server::find_target('Apache2::SOAP=HASH(0x2b89ea8eafd0)', 'SOAP::SOM=HASH(0x2b89eab0f950)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Lite.pm line 2728 eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Lite.pm line 2695 SOAP::Server::handle('Apache2::SOAP=HASH(0x2b89ea8eafd0)', '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmln...') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Transport/HTTP.pm line 394 SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server::handle('Apache2::SOAP=HASH(0x2b89ea8eafd0 )') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Transport/HTTP2.pm line 103 SOAP::Transport::HTTP2::Apache::handler('Apache2::SOAP=HASH(0x2b89ea8eaf d0)', 'Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x2b89ff0881d0)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Apache2/SOAP.pm line 25 Apache2::SOAP::handler('Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x2b89ff0881d0)') called at -e line 0 eval {...} called at -e line 0 The test throwing this error (when $action is undefined) is in the "find_target" method as follows: 2617 my ($class, $static); 2618 # try to bind directly 2619 if (defined($class = $self->dispatch_with->{$method_uri} 2620 || $self->dispatch_with->{$action || ''} 2621 || ($action =~ /^"(.+)"$/ 2622 ? $self->dispatch_with->{$1} 2623 : undef))) { 2624 # return object, nothing else to do here 2625 return ($class, $method_uri, $method_name) if ref $class; 2626 $static = 1; 2627 } This issue has existed since 0.65, and is still present in 0.710.08. Attached is a patch to fix the issue (for 0.710.08). Thanks, m.