>Hi Gregory, sorry for the late reply. We ended up doing the encoding in our .Net dll that creates our Xml being sent. When we move to VFP 9.0, we will then be taking advantage of the STRCONV() to encode in base64.
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>Thanks for you help.

Would you mind dropping the following in my mailbox

(1) gif
(2) gif converted to base 64 with strconv vfp7
(3) gif converted to base 64 with your .net dll

I would like to see what is happening

thanks,