Hi All.<snip>
Can anyone else suggest another alternative? other than Soap etc. as we cant really open ports up as the info is VERY sensitive. oh PS. the XML is also encrypted before it goes and decrypted on the client..BTW
There are a number of middle-ware possibilities, but I think the option using the webserver is a good one. However, it's probably a good idea to just use a CGI rather than messing with COM.
Write a little program to dump the requested data to a stream in any format you like - coded XML, proprietary binary format, whatever - then write it out to the console with the appropriate HTTP content headers.
I've written WinCGI programs that send on-the-fly JPG images this way, and it works nicely. As an added bonus, you can shift the whole shooting match to Kylix if you feel the need, without having to worry about the fact that COM is a MicroSoft-specific paradigm.
-- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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