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Hello folks. I am a student and I am now working on a co-operative project to design a PDF form for a company. The company has a webservice in order to receive data and save them in the database afterwards. After weeks of research I managed to send the data in XML to the server by calling webservice in javascript. However, this only works in Acrobat but the company wants it to work in Reader. I found that the only way is to use "LiveCycle Reader Extensions" to activate such function in Reader but the company could not afford its price! (10000 euros) So I am asked to find an alternative way.

Now I am looking into "Submit by HTTP" but I am not quiet clear how it works. Do I need a server of CGI or PHP? Could this work with webservice? Is this a simpler solution than what I did before?

Also, I would be very appreciated if anyone could provide me some other solution for this.

1. There would be about 200 clients and the form would be locally saved in each computer of the client.

2. The information to gather is sensible and should be well protected.

3. Do not use "submit by email"...

Any suggestion will be useful. Thank you.