[DUG] SOAP pack size

[Alister Christie]

I don't know if this helps much but some web servers (probably just 
Apache) support zip compression downloads - they might support it 
uploads as well - although I have no idea how.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington 



Robert martin wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have got the basis of a SOAP application up and running.  It is 
> transferring some data from one machine to a web server perfectly.
>
> However after sniffing the transaction it seems that each 'packet' of 
> data we send is about 1MB.  This is only about 1/3 of the data we plan 
> to send and we anticipate receiving some data also.  A small number of 
> users will be on dial up.  1Mb would be ok but it seems like we might 
> end up around 5Mb.  This is too much. 
>
> I know SOAP is a bulky XML protocol but does anyone know of ways to 
> reduce the XML size (appart from encoding the data as a binary file, 
> compressing it and sending). 
>
> We might have to scrap what we have done so far.  But asside from the 
> file size, the system works great.  It would be a shame :-(
>
> Thanks
> Rob
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