>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.

Can I ask a few silly questions?

1) Is the access key generated solely from the reg number? If so, why can't this feature be built into the application itself.

2) If the access key depends on other information in your central database (the access key generating database), why not put this access key generation data on a file server and have the user's app go out and get the data. No need for a browser, intranet or com objects.