>>how do you transmit data from apache to a vfp application and back?

Generally by having the VFP application post a request to the server as the client of a webservice.

Whether the web server is Apache or not is not critical. However, in my experience this is best done using one of several SOAP approaches when you're dealing Apache.

Bear in mind that there are some mismatches between MS's SOAP toolkits (different versions) and the implementations of SOAP designed for an Apache environment. Some of them have to do with datatypes -- a lot of this can be addressed by designing your WSDL properly. Axis is a *lot* better than previous versions of Apache SOAP kits, as I understand, but there are often tweaks to be done.

FWIW I have been mostly on the Apache side of this equation, figuring out how to tweak to aptly receive MS-based requests from clients, by writing appropriate java objects to do the translation. But I do understand the MS-based side, as well <s>. (I wrote some test clients using MS-based objects simply to be sure I understood what the interaction was.)

So... I can probably help explain, using appropriate language, once I know what *your* background is... and what's on your mind?

Sorry to be terse. If you want to discuss this further, I'd be happy to, but we should narrow the field a little (which version of Apache, what parts of the client and/or server architecture you have the opportunity to control, what you have in mind, etc etc).


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