How to check connectivity of apns port 2195 from my hosting server?

Question

I want to check if Push Notification can be done using a hosting server before purchasing hosting plan.what is the shortest way to check this.Also i have godaddy.com\'s host

Answer 1

if your system does not have telnet, you can make use of curl to do the job.

curl -v telnet://gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:2195

here -v is for verbose output