I see...
Very Interesting...

Usually I will use third-part free web services with weather publishing (if they exists :) on a client's computer...

But, can we return to the IE. Did you try something like this in your web service:

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* Grab money from Internet
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* 24/06/2005
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PRIVATE lcmoneyweb && web site where we can find exchange rates...
m.lcaliastmp=ALIAS()
m.lcmoneyweb='http://mwprices.ft.com/custom/ft-com/html-currency-summary.asp?view=currency-convert&symbols=FOREXR:GBPUS+FOREXR:USDUS+GBP|USD|225'

ox=CREATEOBJECT("Shell.Explorer")

CREATE CURSOR xtemp (mtemp m)
APPEND BLANK
REPLACE mtemp WITH ReadURL( m.lcmoneyweb)
ox=NULL

in mtemp will be your web page in HTML format and after you can parce it...



>well i don't really require IE, all i am trying to do in the Web Service is to load a web page over the internet. so for example, i am trying to create a test web service that returns the weather for a particular postal code. my colleague calls my web service and passes a postal code. my web service goes out to www.weather.com and gets the weather for that postal code and then returns in.
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>don't know how else i can do this without using IE from within the web service.
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>thanks.