>>I'll give it a shot, but while it may be easy for you, don't forget that I'm a newbie at this.< g >
>>FWIW, I'd imagine that it will fail with C# as well. However, ya don't know until ya try. Time to dig out Kevin's book.:-)
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>I'm about to shut down now and get ready to head to the office. It'll be a coupla hours until I'm back online. If you haven't figured it out by then, give me a holler and I'll give you some help. =)
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Bonnie,

If you've looked at some other of the posts on the thread, you may have noticed that this was a situation that, it works sometimes and not others in VFP.

What I did was to create a table and populate it with one of the keys that was returned by a successful call. Afterwards, using this key, I was able to successfully encrypt and decrypt any string I sent to it.

I'm surmising that the problem is with the SOAP toolkit not accepting the value being returned by the GenerateKey() function because of the characters being returned. Once you have a key that will be accepted, the Encrypt() and UnEncrypt() functions work fine.

In looking over the web page used, I (finally) noted that it was using the HTTP POST protocol rather than SOAP. To me, this would explain why it always worked in .NET and only worked sometimes in VFP.

Anyway, thanks to you and everyone else for the assistance.

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