Re: Strange behavior of connect() when specifying a different port

[Warren Young]

António Santos wrote:
> 
> I've been using Connection::connect() to connect to my MySQL 4.1 server 
> but I wanted it to use a different port than the default 3306. However, 
> even if I change the port parameter, mysql++ continues to use the 
> default 3306!!

MySQL++ 2.3.2 passes that value directly to the C API, so any problem is 
likely in the way you call the function, not in MySQL++.  Please post 
your connect() call code.

Connecting on an alternate port has been tested in v3 and is known to 
work correctly.  Although upgrading to v3 shouldn't be necessary (v2 
should also work), it may be worthwhile anyway.  Since you want to use a 
port number to connect to MySQL++, the new, simpler TCPConnection 
interface might be interesting to you:

http://tangentsoft.net/mysql++/test/doc/refman/classmysqlpp_1_1TCPConnection.html

The simpler interface prevents some incorrect calling possibilities, 
which is what I suspect you're running into with v2.