>FWIW, I have never tried this because it doesn't make any sense to me, for the same reasons that ActiveDocuments don't make sense: If your browser application requires components to be installed on the client machine, what is the advantage to using a browser interface at all? Why not build a VFP interface?
I understand your reasoning here and it may prove necessary to do that.
However, the issues for me are that:
1) the client would like this to be implemented thru the ( Intranet ) web;
2) we are dealing with 100's of machines here, pre-installing a small DLL control on all of them is relatively simple and straightforward here by running a script when they log into the domain, installing VFP and/or VB runtimes is a bit more involved ( but will be done if needed )
3) I need this particular functionality ( i.e. automatically retrieving user info ) for security reasons to preclude abuse and so must have some kind of control to implement it if we indeed continue on this path
Bill
William A. Caton III
Software Engineer
MAXIMUS
Atlanta, Ga.