OIC thanks...it's just one tag in the whole xml in this case, but that should do it...

Thanks
Jaime

>Hi,
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>Sorry, should have been more detailed. You need to send the full XML but the element containing the compressed string needs to be something like:

><CompressedString>
><![CDATA[compressedstuffgoeshere]]>
></CompressedString>

>However it's not foolproof. If the CDATA section content happens to include the ']]>' end marker sequence then the XML is screwed. The only way around that is to use something like Base64 encoding - but then you'd lose a lot of the compression you were after in the first place
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>>can i just return

<CDATA>adfadfadfadfadfad</CDATA>

or do i have to create full xml (ie root node etc...)
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>>Jaime
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Put it in a CDATA tag
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>>>>Hi all
>>>>I have a web service that returns back a very big string. I improved it by compressing the string before sending it, and now i get at the client the error message in Title. Is there a setting i have to change for it to send the binary data? It's a plain vanilla VFP web service.
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>>>>Thanks
>>>>Jaime