I don't know if this helps much but some web servers (probably just Apache) support zip compression downloads - they might support it uploads as well - although I have no idea how.
Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Robert martin wrote: > Hi > > We have got the basis of a SOAP application up and running. It is > transferring some data from one machine to a web server perfectly. > > However after sniffing the transaction it seems that each 'packet' of > data we send is about 1MB. This is only about 1/3 of the data we plan > to send and we anticipate receiving some data also. A small number of > users will be on dial up. 1Mb would be ok but it seems like we might > end up around 5Mb. This is too much. > > I know SOAP is a bulky XML protocol but does anyone know of ways to > reduce the XML size (appart from encoding the data as a binary file, > compressing it and sending). > > We might have to scrap what we have done so far. But asside from the > file size, the system works great. It would be a shame :-( > > Thanks > Rob > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
