[Velocd]

Your account will be suspended if you use IRC on our servers without any notifications. We are not allowing the users to use the open ports just because they may cause heavy loads.

Hmm, well, it's best not tampering with it if your host has threatened to suspend your account. :^/

What you could do is test out PHP sockets on your site and see if port 80 is open for requests. This would just verify that they indeed have blocked out mIRC.

Info on PHP sockets:
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

PHP.net example:

PHP Code:

<?php
$fp = fsockopen("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
   echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
   $out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
   $out .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
   $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

   fputs($fp, $out);
   while (!feof($fp)) {
       echo fgets($fp, 128);
   }
   fclose($fp);
}
?>