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I have an array of proxies and I need one to be chosen randomly and applied to each curl handle. This script runs successfully when proxy support is removed, but as soon as I try to add a proxy it refuses to connect. My proxies are good. I have private proxies that validate by confirming that the IP address of the requester is on a whitelist of IPs I configured. I've also tried working public proxies with no validation, with the same result. The error it returns is that it "cannot connect to google.com:3238". Why it's trying to connect to that port is beyond me, the proxies I use, their port is 3238, but it should be connecting to IP:PORT then Google.com:80. Not sure why it's mixing them up. Here's my code: function multi($urls,$proxies,$agents,$referer) { // create the multi curl handle $mh = curl_multi_init(); $handles = array(); $i = 0; foreach ($urls as $url) { // create a new single curl handle $ch = curl_init(); // setting several options like url, timeout, returntransfer // simulate multithreading by calling the wait.php script and sleeping for $rand seconds curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxies[rand(0,count($proxies))]); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent); // add this handle to the multi handle curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch); // put the handles in an array to loop this later on $handles[] = $ch; $i++; } // execute the multi handle $running=null; do { curl_multi_exec($mh,$running); // added a usleep for 0.25 seconds to reduce load usleep (250000); } while ($running > 0); echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch)."<br />".print_r(curl_getinfo($ch)); // get the content of the urls (if there is any) for($i=0;$i<count($handles);$i++) { // get the content of the handle $output[] = curl_multi_getcontent($handles[$i]); // remove the handle from the multi handle curl_multi_remove_handle($mh,$handles[$i]); } // close the multi curl handle to free system resources curl_multi_close($mh); // echo the output to the screen return $output; } I only post on forums as a last resort. Typically a few Google searches solves the problem, but I've spent too much time researching this one with no progress. I'm assuming it's simply a parameter that needs to be added to the CURL handles, but I've tried every proxy related config option out there and still no dice.