I don't know if it can normally be done, but you could try modifying the transport to use a GZIPInputStream. That might cause interoperability problems, though.
M. At 05:13 PM 3/20/02 +0100, you wrote: >Is it possible to compres the data transported in the soap envelope using >apache soap? >I m developing an application wich returns a large count of records. But the >time needed to transfer all this data (in one time) is verry long. >In the Microsof implementation of soap is it possible to use some >dataformats to transfer such large of data. Does some one know how I can do >this. > >Thanks >Mohssin
