Zend_Soap with attachments (server)

Question

i'm trying to build a SOAP service with Zend_Soap. Everything is working great but the client needs the ability to send attachments to the service (not base64 encoded strings, as this service will be called multiple times a day with various file sizes so processing all that in memory is not possible.

So I'd like to handle a normal SOAP attachment (DIME/MIME) with the SOAP server in Zend Framework however I'm unable to find documentation about it. Can I access it with $_FILES[] or any other way? Is it even possible in Zend_Soap (as there's not that much info available).

SOAP is a must - so thanks for the advice but it has to be SOAP, not REST.

Answer 1

Just found two ressources:

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments
2. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soapatt/