curl_exec() failure - cURL help anyone?

[miahmiah900]

I have not been able to get a cURL request to work in PHP. Is there anyone that can suggest a solution for me?

Everytime I use curl_exec() in PHP to do anything, it works and works for a long time and never produces a result.

I would ask as I have tried many things and cannot find a way to fix the problem. I have tried it on different static urls which should work fine, and curl_exec() still produces nothing.

I have seen curl work before, only on a different server that I no longer use though. I have tried simplified examples and they produce no result. Right now I have no idea where the problem is.

 

[miahmiah900]

here is the most basic code i used to test, which produced the ever-working blank page (no result).

<?
// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.houseleng.com");[/URL]
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>

 

[DRJ478]

Try to output if there was an error using

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-error.php

 

[cdlvj]

What about a proxy? I believe you need to specify that option.

 

[miahmiah900]

ah... my host tells me that they have a custom firewall so that i cannot access other urls from a php script. thanks for the replies. (they will add individual urls to the whitelist for me though)