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I am having troubles making an outgoing connection through a PHP script. I am trying to connect to another server whose port is not 80 or 443. Is the reason I cannot connect to the server because outgoing connections on other ports is not allowed?

Thanks.

Please make sure connections from our server's IP address is accepted at the other server on that particular port.

If you still experience any problem, please open a ticket at support@canadianwebhosting.com, with the following details:

1) IP address and port to which you are trying to connect.
2) The name and location of the PHP script you use
3) Steps to recreate the problem.

I'll have to give this another try again soon. I am pretty busy at the moment, but it relates to something known as Push Notifications for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices using OS 3.0 and up.

Push Notifications are a way for users to get updates from their iPhone Apps even when the App itself is not running. When an App is not running, a little "badge" or notification symbol appears on the App's icon.

A notification can originate from my website and internal database, and it can be sent outward through a PHP script. However, I am getting connection time-out errors which could be caused by any number of reasons. As I've stated earlier, I'll give it another try when I am less busy