Handling attachments with REST WS

Question

Friends,

Is it possible to send attachments (binary content) to a RESTful WS, as we do to SOAP based WS ? How do we handle it in the REST WS ? I intend to work with Java APIs.

Answer 1

HTTP is quite capable of sending and receiving binary media types. For a pure binary stream of bytes, just POST or PUT a body of bytes using the media type application/octet-stream .