>>I don't know how you would send a file through a web service - it's really designed for data.
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>Well any file type can be sent in and out via a WebService, I'm finishing a Web Service that does this. It works very similar to a FTP Server & client.

Yes - but aren't you simply expanding it to a text stream - or are there more sophisticated ways of packaging a file for travel over http? I'd like to learn more...

Is it faster than FTP? Slower?