My web-services test page is working again - you can look at it  here. This gets a species list for a chosen taxon group for a buffer round a grid ref. You can then click on a species and see the distribution of the species in the buffer area and the National 10km square map.

However, It doesn't work for Hoverflies because the scheme does not have full public access (public access is at 1km square level). Why doesn't the 10km grid map work with this level of access?

The way round this would seem to be to set up a user and give them full access - then log on as that user when accessing web-services from the Hoverfly site. This needs the secure logon service. When is that scheduled to arrive? The page in the library saying that its not available is dated 15/02/2006.

It was May when I first had a go at setting up something which accessd the Gateway Services via PHP and some things have subsequently changed, eg. the name of the item for sending a taxon group key. The strangest was that my code sent colours in the form "#FF0000" - which got an error. I found changing to lower case (#ff0000) fixed it!

The documentation on the Gateway has improved massively - well done all!