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Hi,

I've recently encountered this problem. I would like to set which connection does apache/php use to connect remote servers (via curl, smtp... etc).

Here's my situation, I have 2 connections on the XAMPP machine, one of them is local connection with no outgoing blockages, the other is external connection with outgoing blockages. When I try to send mail via pear mail (connecting to port 465), when both connection is on, it is blocked. When I disable the external connection which has outgoing blockages, it works, via the first connection.

I know that this could be a minor issue, and could be solved easily by opening a port, port 465. However, I'm not the admin of the network, so I can't do any tweaks. So is there a way to tell apache/php which connection to use for remote connections?

xistyle wrote:So is there a way to tell apache/php which connection to use for remote connections?

There is no "unique" port or similar for outgoing connections, the port must be specified by the actual php script. Either in a fsockopen() function call or similar. Some functions or addons (like pear) may use default ports, but there should always be an option to pass another port. Mostly the port is specified as parameter in a function call.