SOAP with Attachments or MIME for Web Services refers to the method of using Web Services to send and receive files using a combination of SOAP and MIME

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts...

, primarily over HTTP.

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

MTOM

MTOM is the W3C Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism,a method of efficiently sending binary data to and from Web services.MTOM is usually used with XOP .-Status:MTOM is a W3C Recommendation....

 is the W3C Recommendation for handling binary data in SOAP messages. With the release of SOAP

SOAP

SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks...

 1.2 additionally the note SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature was published.

See also

• DIME
  Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
  Direct Internet Message Encapsulation was a Microsoft-proposed internet standard in the early 2000s for the streaming of binary and other encapsulated data over the Internet....
  
  
• MTOM
  MTOM
  MTOM is the W3C Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism,a method of efficiently sending binary data to and from Web services.MTOM is usually used with XOP .-Status:MTOM is a W3C Recommendation....
  
  
• SOAP with Attachments API for Java

External links

• Note by the World Wide Web Consortium
  World Wide Web Consortium
  The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...
  
  on 11 December 2000