Simple question: why to commpress SOAP messages if transport level does it
by itself, eg HTTP1.1.
I think such a things like compression or coding (SSL) are the
issue on transport level not application level.
Radek Wisniewski
www.datenknecht.de
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Christoph C. Cemper / privat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> good point
>
> AFAIK there is no compression-method for SOAP specified
>
> the WAP-transmissions use a proprietary compress-protocol which is not standardized
>
> also a big bank I heard implemented an own, proprietary compression algorithm on
>their own - no standard
>
> I would appreciate some infos about a compression-standard that could be implemented
>on the application level.
> All those perform a pattern-compression (i.e. LZW,ZIP) on the XML-file and take
>special care about the
> XML-syntax, which means it can yield a better compression.
>
> Also the vendors of networking-hardware propose devices that promise a compression
>of MLs, but those are merely
> for point-2-point or backbone connections, not for application-level compression..
>
> kind regards,
> christoph c. cemper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paco Avila
> To: SOAP User ; SOAP Developer
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:06 PM
> Subject: XML compression in SOAP messages
>
>
> Hi, is possible to compress the XML sent in a SOAP message?
> Is this feature include in the SOAP specification?
>
