Bad idea to transfer large payload using web services?

Question

I gather that there basically isn\'t a limit to the amount of data that can be sent when using REST via a POST or GET. While I haven\'t used REST or web services it seems t

Answer 1

1-5 MB is okay, as long as you provide the user with some sort of progress feedback. Webservices run over HTTP, which is okay-ish when it comes to overhead on larger datasets, the real problem is XML. XML, more often than not, adds a huge overhead to the size of the serialized data. I'd consider JSON or Hessian for larger datasets :)