title: fsockopen, can't get a foot in! Connection timeout
body: <p>Excuse my terrible pun.</p>
  
  <p>Basically, the deal is, the host is being a bitch. A simple <code>fsockopen</code> script, no matter what port, server, or anything, will connect. Trying to get server help from the webhost (due to unfortunate circumstances I have no way of changing hosts) proved ineffective... bunch of morons. A simple <code>phpinfo()</code> shows, however, that <code>allow_url_fopen</code> is <strong>on</strong> and <code>Registered Stream Socket Transports</code> allows me <code>tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls</code>.</p>
  
  <p>So, what am I missing? Does it sound like the host is discreetly blocking socket connections? I mean, even port 80 doesn't work:</p>
  
  <p><code>Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to www.google.com:80 (Connection timed out)</code></p>