Don't worry.
Setup a free Hamachi VPN (http://www.hamachi.cc/). It's completely secure and fast.
That way you can maintain your code intact
HTH


>I want to use a VFP 9 desktop application to access data and do reports (and some minor data changes) on an SQL 2000 database at a remote site on the Internet.
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>NO PROBLEM, it worked so very easily, I just used ODBC and did remote views. It was great.
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> HOWEVER that means the data is going back and forth unencrypted. Both the data for any reports and any data changes or data views are NOT secure.
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>Can anyone suggest a more secure method to retrieve the data?