after more testing I think it might be related to a bug in the PHP libcurl version installed on my ISP's web server.
The exact same test script works, at least gets a connection & returns an error, if I try posting a string to standard port 80.
Theres mention of the curlopt_PORT feature not functioning correctly on older versions of libcurl (googled it ) . I'll test the php soap script from a different client server in the next few days. |