>>>>Just sent it. Other ideas. Which version of the SOAP toolkit are you running? I am running 2.0
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>>>Thanks Evan. Same thing happens with your code as with mine - it times out and then I get the Unknown COM Status Code error . I'm using the same SOAP toolkit - 2.0
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>>Have you tried the utily that Hector [?] point out?
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/001/468/msdncompositedoc.xml
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>I just downloaded it and had a look at the readme file. After reading through that I figured I'd better explain to the network cops here what I was trying to do - if I tried running that utility and it caused problems with my laptop I'd have my ass in a sling.
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>They had a few questions that maybe someone will be able to answer:
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>1. Does VFP attempt to use the same proxy server settings as IE when accessing an external web service?

Yes, if you choose so. proxycfg allows you to set otherwise but the simpler setup would be to adjust it to "system (=IE) settings".

>2. When a Web Services 'sends back' the web service request [response?], does it try to make a 'connection' back to my laptop? If so, the firewall would block any such connection request. (I think the answer to this is no, but I'm not sure.)

No. The idea of choosing HTTP as means of transport of XML messages is that HTTP ports are, in general, open to traffic.

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