[erlang-questions] difference for tcp between PHP and Erlang

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:04:56AM +0100, info wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I can execute fsockopen("www.google.com",80) with PHP but not
> gen_tcp:connect("www.google.com",80,[binary,{packet,0}]) with erlang which returns {error,timeout} !
> why ?

Maybe you have a firewall problem, and PHP is configured
to use a proxy...

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB