For a vfp web service, you'll have to have IIS running somewhere. It could just be your ADSL IP address. The VFP runtimes will have to be on that web server. The other web server can be anything and it will be as simple as a method call passing and returning parameters..
>Claude, thanks for the reply.
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>>You would compile your code into a Visual FoxPro mtdll
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>Would the VFP runtime libraries also have to reside on the web-server, or is all the necessary code wrapped-up in the mtdll file?
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>>... have an iis web site at your local site or at an Internet Service Provider
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>Does it have to be IIS, or can it be eg. Apache?
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>>... the client web site would use their existing scripting language to access the web service method that does the calculation.
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>How are the results returned from the function? Can it be as simple as MyObject = MyFunction(MyParameterList), or an XML character string perhaps?
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>Many thanks,
>Alan