>I need a small web service to allow a remote ASP site to obtain data from an employee database that is FoxBASE DOS dbf files. The remote site will only send me an ID, and web service would return one record with a dozen fields.
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>How hard is it to build a web service?
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>I had thought of using VFP 9 and the new West Wind 5.1. Is that a good idea?
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>What about security with a web service? Could an outsider get into my FoxBASE data?

In order to use the Web Service, a user is limited to what the Web Service expose. So, the Web Service resides on the server. You would probably want to have some kind of identification however to make sure this method is not publically exposed but only to certain members. You might want to implement a Login() method or to pass two additional parameters such as the username and password.