Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive a stream of packets, including perhaps a stream of hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) packets, at a server. The stream of HTTP packets may comprise a data message and a control message. Both messages may be encoded in a computing platform independent protocol, including perhaps a simple object access protocol (SOAP). A SOAP decoder may extract the data message from the SOAP. The data message may be extracted and stored while receiving the stream of HTTP packets. Other embodiments are described and claimed.