What is blocking fsockopen?

Question

After struggling for half a day, I finally manage to get reCAPTCHA to work by converting this function:

function _recaptcha_http_post($host, $path, $data, $p         


        

Answer 1

Woah,

  if( false == ( $fs = @fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10) ) ) {
  die ("Could not open socket");
 }

That doesn't make any sense surely. Try:

    $fs = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10); // @ ignores errors
 if(!$fs) die ("Could not open Socket");

Also Skype also blocks port 80 sometimes.