Re: [SOAP] SOAP and attachment

Yes you can send binary data base64 encoded. However, technically it is 
base64 data transfer as far as SOAP message is concerned. Not an 
optimized attachment.
When you encode base64 the size grows by a factor of about 1.33. Hence 
in the SOAP world that is called non-optimized. Anyway this factor would 
be negligible based on the file sizes you want to send and the amount of 
requests you serve.

The other thing is that, any client needs to decode to get the original 
binary. That could be simple, but in the optimized case, you do not have 
to do that.

Thanks,
Samisa...

Shanon Swafford wrote:
> Looks like if you can transfer the data encoded, anything should be able to
> decode it right?
>
> We send Word, PDF, JPG, BMP, exe, .... document attachments all the time
> using NuSOAP as the client/server although I haven't had time to upgrade it
> to PHP5 native.  I'm waiting on a way to generate the WSDL as easy as NuSOAP
> does:) 
>
> In my servers WSDL, I have:
>
> ..
>   <xsd:element name="file_name" type="xsd:string" new_order="file_name" /> 
>   <xsd:element name="file_size" type="xsd:string" new_order="file_size" /> 
>   <xsd:element name="file_type" type="xsd:string" new_order="file_type" /> 
>   <xsd:element name="file_contents" type="xsd:base64Binary"
> new_order="file_contents" /> ..
>
> Then in my NuSOAP client, I base64_encode any file that I can read as a
> string.  In my case, files that are uploaded ($_FILES[]) to the SOAP client
> via a web form.
>
> Using:
> $file_contents = base64_encode($uploaded_content);
>
> Back on the server, I think NuSOAP decodes it for me because I'm not doing
> anything special, just stuffing it in a MySQL blob.  To get it out of the
> blob, I just SELECT and echo it out to state it simply.
>
> I even have several Windows (.net) clients using that WSDL.
>
> Regards,
> Shanon
> www.ntxinternet.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samisa Abeysinghe [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:15 PM
> To: Guilhem Martin
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [SOAP] SOAP and attachment
>
>
> Guilhem Martin wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was not able to find in the PHP SOAP documentation anything about
>>     
> sending
>   
>> attachment.
>> So my question is: does PHP SOAP extension support SOAP attachment?
>>   
>>     
>
> No.
>
> Samisa...
>
>