Easily done with VFP if you have a tool like Web Connect. Check out their demos and whitepapers at http://www.west-wind.com

There are specific examples on using VFP as a fat client to upload and download data using http.

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>My "friend" has this application he wants to convert to a client server. This app is currently a VFP app runnig over a Novell netowrk.
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>This friend wants to place this on a server and access it through the web with a fat cleint(VFP).
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>My questions are simple: What is the best method to data from the server to the cleint? If VFP the best tool to build a front end to a non VFP data engine?
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