Hi, TR> You will have to do it using the socket api something like this but TR> with error checking: TR> <?php TR> $sourceip = '192.168.1.1'; // ip you want to bind to TR> $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP); TR> socket_bind($sock, $sourceip); TR> socket_connect($sock, 'example.com', 2043); TR> // Write TR> $request = 'GET / HTTP/1.1'."\r\n".'Host: example.com'."\r\n\r\n"; TR> socket_write($sock, $request); TR> //Read reply TR> // Close TR> socket_close($sock); Another option using streams (php5): <?php $opts = array( 'socket'=>array( 'bindto'=>'192.168.1.1:0' //any port will do ) ); $context = stream_context_create($opts); $html = file_get_contents('http://example.com:2043', false, $context); -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php