>Thanks for answering John. I don't know very much XML, but from what I've read, it's good for transferring data that can be represented like a table. But what if you have a text or binary file to send? Is XML able to do that?

XML doesn't work very well with binary data, but it can be done as long as you use the parser and the proper character sets.

For binary data I prefer not to use XML, but rather just transfer the raw data as a link. You can do this easily with the right tools, by communicating between the client and server sides with HTTP.

You can use wwIPStuff to do the client side HTTP access from VFP and any Web backend you see fit. If you use Web Connection there are built in mechanisms for encoding and decoding DBF files for example and even running SQL statements and COM method calls over the Web. THe SQL calls return a Fox cursor or XML.

Regards,