Port Blocking

Might be a shot in the dark but you may want to look into this...

I've been developing on WM platform for some time and have not run into this problem thus far (not port blocking on the device anyway). The one thing I have noticed with WM 6.5 vs WM 6.1 is that I've had to install web certificates in order for my apps to work. Something I didn't have to do with WM 6.1

It be nice if these things had an event log built in but as far as I know they don't. It make a developers life so much easier!

I'm running multiple open ports on one of my test servers and I have yet to run into a port I don't have access to. It tends to be harder to configure on the server than the device as I've never had to do anything on the device other than force the specific port I'm trying to address through ie: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:8081 (the 8081 being the port).

Now keep in mind if it's the device's IP address that he's trying to force to a particular port than that for sure won't work but most if not all apps tend to fetch the data from a fixed IP address or registered domain on a server rather than rely on the IP of the phone as it could change at any time. That being said I can't see Telus blocking ports that are outside their range. If that were the case all of my SQL database apps wouldn't work on my device and so far...so good.

...I'm currently on hold with Telus DNA for clarification.

Just noticed something.... J4Me saying he's changing the port and it works, I'm assuming he's changing the port on the computer/firewall he's trying to connect to as well right? If not then there's the problem. Computers/workstations/servers by default allow data through port 8080 (and very few others) and that’s it. You have to configure them to use others specifically. Now if the app worked before through another port than we (ok I) assume the computer is already configured to the specific port he's trying to connect through. Either way.... Telus is saying they don't block ports.