File transfer via SOAP

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Hello! Can’t find any related data on the subject: how to receive a file
via SOAP. If anyone have accomplished such a task I’ll be very greatful
for
any help and info.
Thanks.

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“Евгений Куртов” [email protected] wrote in post #1117771:

Hello! Can’t find any related data on the subject: how to receive a file
via SOAP. If anyone have accomplished such a task I’ll be very greatful
for
any help and info.
Thanks.

SOAP is actually not a great transport layer for large files. SOAP is an
XML based protocol, which essentially is just a structured text file.

If you really must use SOAP to transfer large files then you’ll need to
use something like Base64 encoding and embed the file in an XML tag.

Here’s a basic example:
<soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap=“http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope”
xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>
soap:Body

5XJ45-3B2
accident

4f3e9b0…(rest of encoded image)


</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Notice the xsi:type=“base64binary”. In this example they are encoding
the JPEG binary data as base64 ASCII text.