Ellen,

It kind of depends on what exactly generates the key. I assume you have a formula that you use to calculate the key based on the registration number. In that case I might use ASP calling a VFP or VB com object. You could probably do the calculation right in the ASP page but then the user could use the view source feature of the browser and see the formula which I assume would defeat the entire purpose. The same would be true if you used JavaScript or VBScript which could easily do the calculation.

>Hi Everyone -
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>I currently have an inhouse VFP5 app that periodically requires the user to re-register the program. The app gives them (a random) Registration Number and they call me to get an Access key. I run a program (that I also wrote in VFP5) to generate the Key. We want to automate this process so that the user can log onto the intranet to retrieve their own key.
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>What technologies should I be looking at?
>Would this be a good job for a VFP COM Server? (the key generator could be rewrittern in VFP6)
>ASP?, ADO? Yikes, the more I read, the more confused I get!!
>We use IE4 as our standard browser.
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>Please point me in the right direction!
>Thanks!
> ~ellen