Submitting via POST using other ports

[Anon]

I'm one of those people stuck behind AT&T's port 80 block. I've set up Apache to serve on port 8080, and it's worked quite well until now.

I'm currently working on a VXML application that requires audio data to be submitted via POST to my server. The relevant line of code is:

<submit next="http://xx.xx.xx.xxx:8080/~danzap/saveaudio.php" method="post" namelist="audioRecording"/>

In my saveaudio script, I use:

$tmpFile=$HTTP_POST_FILES['audioRecording']['tmp_name'];
if (is_uploaded_file($tmpFile))
{
$wavfile="wav/".date("YmdHis").".wav";
copy($tmpFile, sprintf("%s",$wavfile));
$msg = "audio saved";

...

}

My question is: shouldn't this be enough to submit the data over port 8080?

Apparently not, because I'm getting a badfetch error from my VXML provider. (Badfetch errors sometimes just mean miscommunication between the browser and server, however.)

If this isn't the right way to do it, what am I missing? Is there another way?

Thanks for your help. It's appreciated.

-- Dan

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Are you sure your server is listening on port 8080?

[Anon]

Are you sure your server is listening on port 8080?

Yes.

It's possible my VXML provider just won't serve data over any port but 80, however none of their support staff really seem to know.

I just want to know whether there are any other variables that affect what port the data is transmitted to. For instance, does SERVER_PORT or HTTP_HOST have any effect, or should my script be okay the way I wrote it?

• Dan

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The 'port' setting is the only thing that determines which port is used. You may have difficulties when using a proxy though.