Isn't this what the new SOAP protocol is good for?  Have a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/soaptemplate.asp & see if that won't
serve you.  There's also an intro article in the October issue of VB
Programmer's Journal.

HTH,

-Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Allen [mailto:dxallen@b...]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:28 AM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] COM DLL connecting to DB through a Firewall


Can anyone help or point me in the right direction. 

We have a COM DLL on a web server which needs to connect securely to a SQL
Server 7 Database through a Firewall. How do we do this ?

TIA 

Duncan Allen - dxallen@b... 
 
  

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