Re: transport of graphic data via SOAP

[Wouter Cloetens <wo...@mind.be>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:53:46AM -0800, Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
> 2- pass them as attachments with SOAP Messages with Attachements (SwA).
> 
> SwA packages the SOAP message in a Multipart/MIME envelope. The first MIME
> part is always the SOAP message. You can place additional payload in any
> number of following MIME parts.

True for RPC. There is also a Messaging example in the MIME examples that can return
a single part non-SOAP response, e.g. a GIF file with a content-type of image/gif.
In some situations, that may be more useful than a SOAP response with the image as
an attachment.

bfn, Wouter

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