curl isn't responding the same on different hosts

[BurtLo]

I've been puzzling over this for a few days now, and the Siteground L2 support isn't willing to help out here.

 

I'm coding a Wordpress plugin to get affiliate tracking links from Tune/HasOffers. This is totally acceptable behavior AFAIK, and all I have to do is call a URL, and I'll be redirected to a landing page with whatever parm values I've specified.

 

I have a development Linode, where this script works as expected. You can see the output here: http://new.burtlo.info/wp-content/plugins/lmpostback/test.php

 

I've installed that same script on Siteground, but I get a zero length response: http://launchmoxie.com/wp-content/plugins/lmpostback/test.php

 

I've tried a number of variations on making the call, and have tried a number of curl options as well. I'm still stuck.

 

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

Here's the code:

<?php
$aff_link = 'http://jump.launchmoxie.com/aff_c?offer_id=26&aff_id=793';


// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();


// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $aff_link);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);


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


echo 'strlen of response = ' . strlen($response);


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

[scootstah]

What does curl_getinfo() give you?

[BurtLo]

curl_getinfo() on the server that doesn't work as expected gives me this:

Array ( [url] => http://jump.launchmoxie.com/aff_c?offer_id=26&aff_id=793 [content_type] => [http_code] => 0 [header_size] => 0 [request_size] => 0 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 0 [namelookup_time] => 0 [connect_time] => 0 [pretransfer_time] => 0 [size_upload] => 0 [size_download] => 0 [speed_download] => 0 [speed_upload] => 0 [download_content_length] => -1 [upload_content_length] => -1 [starttransfer_time] => 0 [redirect_time] => 0 [redirect_url] => [primary_ip] => [certinfo] => Array ( ) [primary_port] => 0 [local_ip] => [local_port] => 0 )

curl_getinfo() on the server where it does behave as expected gives me this:

Array ( [url] => http://jump.launchmoxie.com/aff_c?offer_id=26&aff_id=793 [content_type] => text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 [http_code] => 302 [header_size] => 1089 [request_size] => 87 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 0.030762 [namelookup_time] => 0.004267 [connect_time] => 0.006786 [pretransfer_time] => 0.006869 [size_upload] => 0 [size_download] => 513 [speed_download] => 16676 [speed_upload] => 0 [download_content_length] => 513 [upload_content_length] => 0 [starttransfer_time] => 0.030703 [redirect_time] => 0 [redirect_url] => http://new.burtlo.info/optin-test?offer_id=26&offer_name=LaunchMoxie+Postback+Test&offer_ref=&goal_id={goal_id}&affiliate_id=793&affiliate_name=Burt+Lo&affiliate_ref=&source=&offer_url_id=0&transaction_id=102898cf11d15f4d0a8dfddd673e1c&session_ip=&ip=45.79.101.167&sale_amount=0.00 [primary_ip] => 52.8.61.250 [certinfo] => Array ( ) [primary_port] => 80 [local_ip] => 45.79.101.167 [local_port] => 48378 )

Edited August 31, 2015 by BurtLo

[ignace]

Run curl_error.

[BurtLo]

Yes!!! That was it! It said that it couldn't resolve my URL.

 

That's a bit odd to me since my DNS is managed at Cloudflare, and I did have a valid CNAME record for that host.

 

I ended up adding the same CNAME alias in my Siteground DNS settings. My code worked immediately after that.

 

Thank you all for your help!!!

[QuickOldCar]

I tested and saw both have a redirect, a 302 and a 301, you need to follow redirects now.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

[BurtLo]

Yup, got it. I had set that to true during debugging, knowing I'd have to follow in the end. Thanks for following up with me.