Sounds like you may need an HTTP upload component or equivalent working with your web page form. SoftArtisans has the most popular HTTP upload component (works with ASP) but there are many free ones available. We'll have a bunch of utilities soon that will include this capabilty with examples that work within VFP. Once on your web server, just run Norton antivirus or equivalent over it..
>Hi all I has been asked to think about a solution to receive data in a
>certain format via a webpage or via email and this to be processed over the
>web and then imported to the vpme table. actually this is the approach.
>
>1. been able to receive a xls file with certains column format to append it
>to a table (how to import it from xls to vpme)
>2. receive a dbf file or a comma delimited ...( no comments how to import )
>
>The thing is this,
>1.how to been able to receive it and pre-process it on a web page in order
>to tell the customer that the data has been received (for example after
>summit, tell "you have summited xxx records" so user can print a record that
>he summited the data) or tell, the format is incorrect etc.
>2. how to avoid receive viruses or attacks with that files .. (n tiers etc)
>
>
>thank you all
>
>Norman Avila