I wrote an app for distribution to non-profits in North Carolina. It would locate all churches, schools and banks in towns and cities. This was stored in Access with several binary fields, one would hold a mapquest snapshot of each places location.

I obtained the 'maps' by using the xHTTP freeware .ocx [ from www.xstandard.com ]. Not only is it free, but I prefer it often over WinHTTP or MSXML as it incorporates Tidy and can return requests as well-formed XML (which web pages often don't). I could then use xPath to obtain the map via an ADODB Stream.

I have used a similar method to obtain adobe, excel and other binary files as I could re-direct the content to disc as required. Problem is these were/are proprietary sites.

I assume you site is proprietary so we cannot suggest code that we could test.

Stan