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SOAP with Attachments (SwA) or MIME for Web Services is the use of
web services A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...
to send and receive files with a combination of
SOAP Soap is a salt (chemistry), salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. In a domestic setting, soaps, specifically "toilet soaps", are surfactants usually u ...
and
MIME A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek language, Greek , , "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses ''mime'' (also called ''pantomime'' outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a the ...
, primarily over
HTTP HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, wher ...
. Note that SwA is not a new specification, but rather a mechanism for using the existing SOAP and MIME facilities to perfect the transmission of files using Web Services invocations.


Status

SwA is a W3C Note. It was submitted as a proposal, but it was not adopted by the W3C. Instead, MTOM is the W3C Recommendation for handling binary data in SOAP messages. With the release of
SOAP Soap is a salt (chemistry), salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. In a domestic setting, soaps, specifically "toilet soaps", are surfactants usually u ...
1.2 additionally the note SOAP 1.2 Attachment FeatureSOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature
by the W3C's of 8 June 2004 was published.


See also

* DIME * MTOM *
SOAP with Attachments API for Java Jakarta SOAP with Attachments (SAAJ; formerly SOAP with Attachments API for Java), as part of Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS), provides a standard way to send XML documents over the Internet from the Jakarta EE platform. SAAJ enables developers ...


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by the
World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in ...
on 11 December 2000 World Wide Web Consortium standards Web service specifications XML-based standards {{Web-stub