Hi Jordan,

You might look into Marcus Egger's Voodoo development platform that runs on Rick Strahl's West Wind Web Connection server application or simply check out Rick's wwIPStuff class library samples for the way he handles DBF files over HTTP.

Good luck!

Hugh

>Thanks Hugh,
>from what you say it doesn't seem like the ActiveDoc solution is what i am looking for at all. i thought it might work in some sort of portal situation maintaining a link to the data source on the server, but your explanation sounds like the activedoc would run very slowly over the internet not making it worthwhile at all.
>do you have any other suggestions on how i might quickly get an internet version of my (client-server) application up and running? any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>many thanks,
>Jordan
>
>>Hi Jordan,
>>
>>First of all, be aware that ActiveDoc technology has been rev'd out by MS for VFP. So you better not upgrade your version of VFP or your ability will go away.
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>>Secondly, a VFP form running in an IE browser is running as a client form. That means that when it looks for data on the C:, it's looking on the client machine's C: (not the server's C:). If your data is on a particular drive over the network you need to make sure there is a drive mapping on every machine that runs your app (or they won't find the data).
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>>Thirdly, every machine that runs your app as a client in their IE browser needs to have the appropriate runtime installed on their machine.
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>>To publish your app all you need to do is make it the href of a link. The active doc technology will then copy your application down to the client machine and run it in the IE browser.
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>>Good luck!
>>
>>Hugh
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>i have got an existing application that i want to quickly make available over the internet\intranet. i read up on the ActiveDoc object and compiled it into my application and can now run it in a browser on my local machine. the issue is i don't really understand the implications of such a distributed model. are there risks to this? performance issues i should look out for? security? and what's needed to publicise the application (MTS. IIS)?
>>>as you can tell i am no internet programmer and need a quick solution. any guidance would be greatly appreciated :)
>>>
>>>Jordan