I fairly new in the COM world so this may be very simple. I have created a simple VFP COM Object which receives four parameters from an ASP Page. The COM object receives the parameters o.k. but they are of object type making manipulation difficult. All the documentation I have read tells me the following should work and pass the request object item values as character :

'ASP page Section
<%
If Len(Request("txtday")) > 0 Then
Set oServer = Server.CreateObject("CentralWeb.Download")
Response.write(Request("txtday"))
strResult = oServer.GetDownLoad(Request("txtday"),Request ("DropMonth"),Request("DropYear"),Request("DropType"))
Response.write("
")
Response.write(StrResult)
Else
' No day entered write message back
Response.Write "Please input a day to display report"
End if
%>

'COM component
Function GetDownload
lParameters lcday,lcMonth,lcYear,lctype
return type('lcday')
*I want to be able to do more here with the parameters (i.e. build a date) but I can't.

I thought all request items were of character data type ? Why does this return object type for all four and How do I get around it

Thanks in Advance


Scott