Web Services and Binary payload

Just ran into a request from one of colleagues on how to handle file attachments in Web Services.

Google pointed me this article on MSDN.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/wsedime.asp

This uses DIME. DIME is now giving way to SOAP MTOM. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-soap12-mtom-20040608/

But as of now I believe the option is to go with DIME as WSE still doesn’t support MTOM.

Read this if need further background.

http://www.winfx247.com/247reference/msgs/0/1206.aspx

Another approach is outlined @

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/webservices/DIMEBridge.asp?print=true