Re: mysql_connect does not connect

"John Nichel" <john@kegworks.com> wrote in message news:41474D7B.4090600@kegworks.com... > Jason Davidson wrote: >> The webpage of coarse, is not local, regardless of where its hosted, so >> a firewall will come into play when trying to connect. You dont have >> disable it, i should have been specifc i suppose, you must >> allow for the mysql port to be open. :) >> Whats for others to confirm, try it yourself and see if it works. >> >> Jason > > You understanding of how this works is a bit off Jason. If you make a > call to one of my web sites from your machine via a browser, the _only_ > port I need to have open to the outside is 80 (or whatever port I have my > web server running on), even if I make 1000 calls to a local db, but this > has nothing to do with how the web server talks to MySQL. What is meant > by local here, is that the MySQL db and web server are on the same > machine. A firewall comes into play when your web browser requests a page > from my web server, but does not come into play when that page has to > connect to a local db before sending content to you. Your remote machine > never talks to my local MySQL db. Thank you. As I said previously, I did think that the firewall would not be relevant. I don't know a lot about the TCP/IP stuff but I do know enough to write a couple of simple programs. They are actually UDP programs. An example is my "UDP Send and Receive Using CAsyncSocket" at: http://simplesamples.info/MFC/UDPSendReceive.php Using it, I can send and receive UDP packets within my system using 127.0.0.1 without any problem from my firewall.