>Hi Rick,
>
>>>The WSDL file is there for non-.NET clients<<
>
>Looks like it - I just tried using a .NET client and there was no asmx?wsdl hit. But I was using a VFP client and explicitly targeting the wsdl in the SoapInit(). Odd thing is that this does *occasionally* produce a HTTP 401 error followed by a successful authentication (i.e. behaving in the same way as the actual subsequent call to the webmethod)

Well there are multiple things at work. if you do from VFP, the SOAP client will hit the server. As will wwSOAP. Once, on the first hit to initialize. But it may also pull the WSDL out of the cache.

Anyway, .NET does this differenty - it uses the class as the structure definition for the Web service.

+++ Rick ---