Conecting over the Internet for getting data from clients.

I want to connect over the internet to get data from clients.What would
be the easiest method and the most stable methos to do it

1.Use a Point to Point prtotcol from the client pc and then upload the
data to our sql server
2.Export the data from the clint pc in XML format and then Enter it in
our computer.
3.Have all clienst ftp the data in a dirctory and then upload the xml
files from the directory?

Thanking you in anticipation.Would love it if we could discuss and
distribute our thoughts on this.

AjayFTP seems like the obvious choice unless you need the data continuously
available online.

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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