From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T21:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Web services and larger files

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Hi,

Luke Kanies wrote:
> This is an addendum to my earlier thread about web services and ruby,
> wherein I was forced to accept the inevitability of using threads.
> 
> I've successfully got my client and server talking to each other for
> small tasks, but I'm trying to expand to being able to pass (sometimes
> large) files around and I've run into what seems almost like a
> fundamental problem.
> 
> Basically, I'm trying to send a file over the wire, and for files above
> about 20k in size I get an indefinite hang.

Hmm.  I tried sending 2M< size binary file but it seems to work.  Can I
see an example which causes indefinite hang?

> I'm currently actually passing the file contents as an argument to the
> method call; should I instead somehow attach the file somehow?  Is there
> an accepted way to pass files around in XML that I don't know about?

Do you see a sample of "SOAP with Attachment" at
http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/browser/trunk/sample/soap/swa/ ?

Regards,
// NaHi
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