Thank for the help.

>Check your Anti-virus firewall and make sure that it doesn't block your app.
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>Also there are connection settings - a connect mode that determines how proxies are used and these settings changed with IE 8 I believe in mid-2000's. That might cause problems - you need to use a direct connection in InternetOpen(). I can't recall exactly how this works but in wwFtp it's nHttpConnectType which defaults to 0 instead of 1 (which I think reads the system settings which often doesn't work if you're not a full admin because the registry can't be read).
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>>>Code?
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>>I am using code written by Robert Abram in Sept 1998, a class called ftp_service.
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>>I can reach the ftp site through Windows Explorer but not via VFP.
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>>>Make sure you're using the right handles when you're connecting. There are two handles you need to manage the Internet handle and the FTP handle...
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>>>>When I attempt to read the filename of a file on a FTP site, the ftpFindFirstFile hangs for several minutes then returns an timeout error.
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>>>>Does anyone know why and how to fix it?