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>>The other thing I wish to do is allow my VFP app at the remote site(s) to use the Internet to connect to Head Office and pass a data set to our central quotation engine, wait while the quotation engine processes the data and hand back the result to the remote application, and then the remote application disconnects. Therefore, I want to use the Internet as a "network" and get the necessary software to allow the communication between the "client" and "server". For this, Mabry recommended their SocketX control. I have no idea how either controls work but the ability to get to the FTP server was the starting block.
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Check out "SA-FileUp" from Software Artisans (www.softwareartisans.com). This is exactly what this Active-X control is for. Basically, how if works is you pass a file to the web server and specify an .asp page to process the file or files once they are uploaded. Also, if you are wanting to pass foxpro tables from an html page, check out Microsoft's Posting Acceptor.