Re: Reading MimeBodyPart using MS SOAP

Perhaps I read your e-mail incorrectly.  Does the response payload contain only MIME stuff with no text/xml part that is the SOAP envelope?  If it does not include a SOAP envelope, it is really not a Web service, and I would expect very few Web service clients to be able to read it.

If it has an envelope and a MIME attachment, it is a Web service.  Unfortunately, although Microsoft provided two of the three authors for the SOAP Messages with Attachments (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments), which describes the use of MIME for SOAP attachments, the MS SOAP Toolkit only supports DIME for attachments.  It cannot read MIME attachments.

Scott Nichol

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "THOMAS, JAI [AG-Contractor/1000]" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:20 AM
Subject: Reading MimeBodyPart using MS SOAP


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> We have a document-style web service server using Apache SOAP and client using Microsoft Soap Toolkit 3.0.
> As response, this web service returns a MimeBodyPart (not a soap envelop). We are having trouble reading the response using MS soap. We are trying with Low level interface but can't figure out how to get Mime body part from soap client's output stream.
>  *Reader.Load Connector.OutputStream *  fails since it expects response in xml format. DimeParser also won't work.  (We have a java client also which obviously works fine).
> Can this be done using MS soap? Any help is very much appreciated?
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Jai
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