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SirTravSirTrav 

Sent http request to 111.222.3.44:12345 instead of http://111.222.3.44:12345

I am trying to make a call out to a webconnection to an external service.  I have a program that will test to make sure the service is working.  In that program if I put http://111.222.3.44 it cannot connect to my webservice, but if I put 111.222.3.44 it can connect to my service.  In salesforce I have tried going 

    HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest();
    req.setEndPoint('111.222.3.444:12345');

 What I get is an error that says System.CalloutException: no protocol:111.222.3.444:12345  If I put the http:// on there it just times out.  Any idea how to make salesforce not require the http or is there a different callout method?

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You're trying to... ping? You'll need to actually have a service on the other end that supports http. All of salesforce's socket features are http-based (as opposed to a Berkeley socket, for example). This is why only REST and SOAP are currently supported.