Compressing SOAP requests and using SSL

My boss has just looked at the SOAP client/server system I wrote. I 
substituted my generated SOAP java client classes in for the 
Synergy-created java client classes, (I made sure all the method 
signatures were identical) and ran the web app. It talked to my SOAP 
server just fine.

Looking at the network traffic, it's obvious that SOAP is quite 
bandwidth-intensive. The Synergy RPC protocol is primitive but very 
compact, and my boss has basically vetoed the move to SOAP because of 
the bandwidth constraints (We host our customers' web apps in-house, and 
those web apps use RPC back to the customer's servers to access their 
data!!! Weird... don't ask - it's the way "they" want it)

My question is, is it possible to tell Apache SOAP to compress the HTTP 
request? With it being textual data, we could achieve quite good 
compression rates.

Also, can Apache SOAP use SSL? Can I just specify an "https://..." URL 
in my Call.invoke()?

Thanks for any help.

Nige

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