Stephen,

I figured it had to be something like that. Hopefully someone else has come across this and figured out how to return the XML back through the firewall.

I spent a good part of last weekend building a cool demo (using VFP of course) on web services for a conference that we put on for users of our software. I did all the development my home box - and it worked great - and then the darned thing wouldn't work from behind the firewall at work - it timed out just as you described....

AL


>I am tieing it back to my firewall not allowing a PORT of entry for the return of the XML to me. It times out and we get the UnKnown Com Status error.
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>anyone opened up the docs on SOAP for portal deffinition on the sending end so it delivers properly on the way back?
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>__Stephen
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>>Hi Jerry,
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>>I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. My understanding is that having to go through a firewall to get at and retrieve information from 'outside' web services should not be an issue. But I'm not so sure about that because I can't explain why I could do this from my home P.C. and can't do the exact same thing here at work - where I do have to go through a firewall ...
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>>The fact that the methods of the Web Service are exposed to you through intellisense I don't think is relevant. When you register the Web Service in VFP 7, it stores the method names in the foxcode table. The fact that the methods are available when writing code doesn't necessarily mean that you'll successfully connect to the web service when you run the code.
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