[DUG] SOAP pack size

[Kyley Harris]

what kind of data are you sending that ends up being 1MB in size? How often
are the packets being sent.. Thats a huge amount of traffic if its
continuous usage..
could you indicate what the size of your packet is compressed? compression
might not even help...





On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Robert martin <rob at chreos.co.nz> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Alister Christie
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> > 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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