Problem solved. It seems there was a proxy server involved which was screwing things up.
Regards, Michael Egan > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Egan > Sent: 31 March 2004 14:20 > To: PHP General (E-mail) > Subject: [PHP] fsockopen connection error on IIS[Scanned] > > > Hello all, > > I'm working with somebody using IIS (honest - it's not me) to > try and develop some web services whereby a site hosted on > IIS is able to access data using a nusoap client with a > nusoap server set up on a linux/apache server. I can do this > satisfactorily from another linux/apache server but my > colleague is having problems doing this from IIS. > > The main problem seems to be that fsockopen isn't working > from their system. We have tried running the following script: > > <?php > $fp = fsockopen("www.thehostname.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); > > if (!$fp) > > { > echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n"; > } > > else > > { > > echo "Success"; > > } > ?> > > But the following error is returned: > > Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to > www.thehostname.com:80 in > C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\webservice\fsocktest.php on line 2 > A connection attempt failed because the connected party did > not properly respond after a period of time, or established > connection failed because connected host has failed to > respond. (10060) > > I've searched through a few mailing list archives and the > only thing I came across was the suggestion that the client > server is not allowing outgoing connections. Is there any way > of testing this or indeed any other suggestions as to what > might be going wrong. > > I confess I feel I'm on extremely thin ice with this - I'm > not overly familiar with nusoap and have no familiarity > whatsoever with IIS. Any general pointers would be extremely welcome. > > Regards, > > Michael Egan > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php