Sending the main XML message in chunks ? Is it a valid SOAP reque st

[Aniruddha Shevade <as...@actuate.com>]

hello
   we are planning to use http chunked protocol to send soap attachments.
In this case is it possible to have the  primary soap xml  message sent in
chunks too

An illustration is

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ruthenium
 Content-Type: multipart/related;
 boundary=MIME_boundary;type=text/xml;start=<request.xml> 
Transfer-Encoding:chunked 
SOAPAction: ""  

27D 
--MIME_boundary 
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 
Content-ID: <request.xml> 
Content-Length:498  

<?xml version='1.0'?> 
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
       SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
       xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema"
       xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> 
  <SOAP-ENV:Header>
10
 <User>Administrator</User> 
  <Password></Password> 
 </SOAP-ENV:Header>
20
 <SOAP-ENV:Body>
<UserLoginReq/> 
</SOAP-ENV:Body> 
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope> 
646
--MIME_boundary 
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 
Content-ID: <request.xml> 
Content-Length:498  

.. ATTACHMENT data

0   ((to indicate end of chunk)



The highlighted numbers are the HTTP Chunk size.  while constructing a very
large 
soap message

Is such a format acceptable