curl fails to connect when not port 80

Curl newbie question: Here is a php script that works fine from the command line with CURL_OPT_PORT set or not -- either way. <?php $fp = fopen( "./results.txt", "w" ); $searchUrl = "http://ethicshare.cs.umn.edu"; $ch = curl_init(); $user_agent = "Mozilla/4.0 pp(compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)"; curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent ); curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $searchUrl ); // curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_PORT, "8080" ); // curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 ); // curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); // return to a var curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, 1 ); curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp ); curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 ); // curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1 ); // fail on errors // curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1 ); // allow redirects // curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15 ); // times out after 15s $info = curl_getinfo ( $ch ); print ( "curl info = " . print_r ( $info, true ) . "\n\n"); curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp ); curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 ); curl_exec ( $ch ); curl_close ( $ch ); fclose ( $fp ); ?> When running this same script through apache however, it works fine without the port directive. However, I get no results when attempting to connect to port 8080. Command line curl works fine too. It's only when connecting through apache that my script fails. Here are some specifics about my environment: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5 PHP/5.1.6 Any help/suggestions will be *greatly* appreciated!! This is driving me nuts! Cheers! -- Penny for your thoughts now, my boy Bill -- Bruce Springsteen