Hi!

I'm hoping someone here knows anything about the SOAP
protocol.

For a project at work, someone is asking if our product can
do SOAP. Of course, I look around to find it's HTTP/XML,
and so (despite it's name of Simple Object Access Protocol),
it's not all that simple and not the sort of thing you can
easily setup on a tiny embedded processor (18F252 that's
already running the rest of the system if you're wondering).

Nonetheless, try explaining this to managers...

So, does anyone know SOAP well enough to know if I can pull
a "trick" like precomputed headers/trails, so that our data
can be embedded in a message by doing
   {header}data{trailer}
where header/trailer is all the HTTP/XML junk? Do any
handshaking messages need to be exchanged, or can I just
send messages out as needed?

And, if I can do that, would there be a problem if the data
is binary instead of ASCII?

Thanks,
   Bill

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