I am trying to come up with a way to create a VFP data service that will live equally well on workstations and servers.

With IIS, I can create a virtual directory or new web site, and have my VFP app or IE go to the server's .asp, which calls a COM object and data is returned. I can do the same with PWS, but PWS is very heavy (and makes too many workstation modifications) to put on all of the desktops I develop for.

Does anyone know of lightweight web servers that install cleanly on a workstation and support COM objects?

I'm going this route because I think it will let me create my COM data management stuff just one time, whether the user is working locally or not. I intend to make the "web" site run on an obscure port, etc so it's not really doing anything web-like at all, it'll just return HTML or XML when called.

Any thoughts?