ISP's proxy server causes problems

[johnie]

Hi.
Is there a setting for PHP or Apache to globally set a proxy server?

My company's ISP decided to use proxies and this causes problems with scripts that use fsockopen() and CURL for development and testing purposes. However when uploaded there isn't such issue.

What can i do in this case? Redesigning the scripts is a lot of trouble and on the other hand there isn't such need on the web host.

Thanks,
John

[AstroTeg]

I haven't used Curl with a proxy, but it looks pretty straight forward: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

Look for "proxy". You may have to write some code that identifies which server its running off of. When its on your home machine, it'll need to use the proxy code, and ignore the code when its running from your production server.

Otherwise, you may have to create libraries. One library for production which doesn't use a proxy and another library for home which does use a proxy (use include() or classes).