DIME is also used to send attachments in a SOAP message. DIME has the following advantages over MIME:
- There is no need to encode binary data in DIME.
- DIME is faster and more efficient at processing messages. The parser checks the data in the record headers to estimate the number of records in the message without having to read any record data.
- There is no restriction on the content of a DIME record.
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