>What is the fastest way to obtain data from a database located in the internet, between a Visual fox pro web services or using webpages

I have not done this but having doen things similar to this I would think the safest would be a Web Service. Safest being that once you have this implemented you have control over the code on both sides. You could track failures and have the code on either side deal with the problem in the way you need to I.E. Notify the receiver that a failure occured, log the problem to a specific problem Web Service Side and then E Mail an Administrator.

Could see a possible lag time on the Web Service Side if you have to create the table on the fly but it is going across http so the transfer should be the same.

I suspect that differences in time will be so close that the driving factor would be control.

Once you get the web service down your chance of new possibilities open up greater with the web service.