Hi George,

I can't find it now, but I ran across a message earlier today that said base64 encoding might get the illegal characters through.


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