Thanks Jim
Knowing the quality of Rick's work, i think i'll go with wwSoap, but i like your ideas very much.

Jaime

>Hi Jamie,
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>Unfortunately my cleintel is about 80% LINUX hosted web sites, so our expertise for server side scripting is with PHP and not .NET.
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>Since the Microsoft SOAP SDK isn't going to work on a Windows 2003 box worth a darn, the way I looked at this problem is this
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>Options:
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>1) Create a PHP SOAP Wrapper around my original VFP COM DLL.
>2) Use Rick Strahls wwSoap object.
>3) Create a ASP.NET SOAP wrapper around my original VFP COM DLL.
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>I already indicated that due to our LINUX clients, my web programmers are allready a lot stronger in PHP then .NET so I put that on the .NET option at bottom of my list.
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>Rick Strahl's (west-wind) toolkits are exceptional but for the same reason as above (PHP expertise) I put that option as second.
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>Anyway, I my programmers installed PHP 5 on the Windows 2003 box and along with a one PHP script file containing 4 lines of code they were able to expose the COM object in my original VFP DLL as a SOAP service with a WSDL.
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>Zend has a greate tutorial on PHP 5 SOAP extensionsm and PHP 5 (on the windows platform) already lets you instantiate COM objects.
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>For the SOAP Tutorial See:
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>http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PHP-SOAP-Extension/
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>To instaniate Windows COM objects in PHP 5 see:
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>COM support functions for Windows in the standatd PHP manuals
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>Please note that we did discover that default installations of IIS6 on Windows 2003 do not have the .WSDL loaded as a supported MIME type it will return without giving the famiouse 404 error. We overcame it by adding the MIME type to the supported list in IIS. (.NET SOAP consumers can't consume your SOAP service if they can't get to the WSDL).
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>>Hi All
>>I'm struggling trying to implement a standard VFP Web Service ( i.e using SOAP ) in a Win2003 server, but with no success. I am getting "Access denied" errors from the web service for any access to data on the server. The web service has been set up as COM+ with impersonation, but the server doesn't care, it seems. I don't mind giving even admin rights to the IUSR_... since the is a point to point server accessible only from a specific ip address. Any ideas what can i do to make this work?
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>>TIA
>>Jaime