SOAP and Attachments
In July 2000, a specification for using MIME multipart/related attachments was introduced to the SOAP community. This approach enables a SOAP message and zero or more attachments to be transmitted as a single SOAP message package. By using media types and specific URI schemes in this protocol, you can relate different parts of a SOAP message to attachments in the package. Figure 9.1 shows how the SOAP message package is organized within HTTP.
Figure 9.1. SOAP message package.
As you can see from the figure, the HTTP message body contains an encoded data stream consisting of the primary SOAP message and its associated attachments. ...
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