[DUG] SOAP pack size

[Robert martin]

Hi

We are using Apache.  Will look into it.  I think for the time being the 
data size is not too big an issue.



Alister Christie wrote:
> 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.
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> Robert martin wrote:
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>> 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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