Image Webservice issue

[Komil13]

Hey guys,

Let me explain the setup of our servers first,

We have a webserver sitting outside of the firewall, which runs the company site. We also have an internal webserver for our intranet. We also have a SQL server which, as guessed, sits inside our firewall. There is also a internal file server.

Our internet webserver will query the database and get the path of some scanned documents for our customers. These documents are images and sit on the file server. Then, these images will be displayed on the site for our customers.

Since, the webserver is outside of the firewall, we cannot attach any shared drives. Our solution: create a webservice that sits on the intranet webserver and gets the info for the internet webserver. I was reading up on the webservices info on the net, and noticed that the output of a webservice is always in XML. Is there any way that I can return a image file using the webservice?

I know that this message is long. I do apologize for the length of this message and I appreciate all your help.

Thanks.