----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Ewins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 09:48 Subject: Re: Out of Memory problem
> Steve Loughran wrote: > > send it as an attachment. That works for files that size. base64 encoding is > > very slow as well as being inefficient; XML parsers dont like strings that > > size. > > Are we sure it's the XML parser thats at fault here? I'm a little > interested in this one, as some of the stuff we do does the base64 thang > (for historical reasons - its not our service at the other end). This > isn't the first time I've seen people complain about OOME's with Axis, > but there's no way you should OOM base64 transforming an 8Mb file - > gzipped or not. The previous report, IIRC, was for a 2Mb string, not > encoded. While these practices arent ideal, it makes me wonder if there > is a bug that needs looking at. I dont know where the problem is, and if you can find it, great. But I dont think 'we cant base 64 an 8mb file and add it inline' is going to be a priority on my list.
