>Hi George,
>
>Any chance the crypto service is sending back illegal characters? Maybe the web service is doing its job, but the SOAP toolkit can't handle the result.
>
>http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_11/online/aspnet_jgoodyear_11_05_02/

Thanks for the link, Joel. It's something that I'll need to keep in mind. I can't, however, see why this works fine everytime I've tried it in the .NET debug mode, but won't work at all when called by VFP.