121911 - SOAP with attachments not supported.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Web Services, defect, P3)

Description

[Ray Whitmer]

We have added interfaces anticipating SOAP with attachments, but we have not
actually implemented it yet.  This causes a MIME wrapper to be automatically
placed around the SOAP message, and things which are not easily serialized to
XML but are easily serialized to other MIME-identifiable formats can be placed
there.  For example, I want to do ecommerce and order a tshirt with my own
picture on it, so I make a SOAP message to which is attached the picture.  Even
XML and especially HTML documents may be attached rather than passed as big
strings because it works better due to the encapsulation problems of SOAP.

Comment 1

[Ray Whitmer]

Note, some seem to now be supporting a DIME format in addition to MIME format
for adding attachments to SOAP.  I am not sure where this leaves EBXML, which
went to great lengths to be compatible by embedding SOAP in MIME.

Comment 2

[Ray Whitmer]

This is too big a fix for mozilla 0.9.9.  Setting milestone later.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

Moving Netscape owned 0.9.9 and 1.0 bugs that don't have an nsbeta1, nsbeta1+,
topembed, topembed+, Mozilla0.9.9+ or Mozilla1.0+ keyword.  Please send any
questions or feedback about this to [e-mail].  You can search for
"Moving bugs not scheduled for a project" to quickly delete this bugmail.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

harishd is now the SOAP owner, reassigning.

Comment 5

[John Gaunt (redfive)]

taking SOAP bugs

Comment 6

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

We dropped SOAP.