Erik:

As simply as possible, here's what I'm looking to do:

My application involves 11 client computers and 1 server located on an IP-based WAN. The WAN connects client computers in several buildings scattered across the suburbs in our area.

I'm writing a client-side application that monitors free tables belonging to a commercial VFP application. Periodically, my app checks for changes to these tables. If add/edit/delete activity has occured, my app converts the affected records to XML and calls the Web Server, sending it the XML stream. (I am not allowed to put these free tables into a DBC and get access to triggers, argh!) Anyway, I have no problems up to this point.

The web server updates SQL server tables from the XML data. So far, so good.

Next, the XML data file needs to be sent ("forwarded") to another client computer on this WAN. My client-side application watches for incoming XML files and updates its' free tables when XML files are found in a specific directory.

So my primary technical question is how to transfer an XML file from the West Wind Web Server to one of the client computers.

Thanks in advance for your help. If you need more specifics, please let me know.



>>I need a Web Connection web server to "transmit" or "copy" an XML file to a client computer on an intranet. What options are there for accomplishing this?
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>>Client computers are running Win95/98. The IP addresses of the target computers are known, but Universal Naming Convention machine names may not be available. I intend to place the transmitted XML files in a specific directory on the target computer. The files are generally 5K or less in size.
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>On a LAN, you can just copy the file using UNC, as long as the target computers have file/print sharing enabled, and the proper folders are shared.
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>But when you use the term Intranet, you imply that the clients will be requesting data from the server- in this case, the server needs to be running IIS (and I guess, in your case, WWWC), and the clients just make a request to a method that knows how to return the XML.
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>Without knowing more specifics about what you need to do, it's difficult to give a more specific answer.