cURL / Copy() with HTTPS not working

[tommyboy123x]

For some reason when I attempt to connect to the server to download the log file (it has get variables to specify the date range), it won't work

 

Also, this code is extremely... "simplified" and yet so ugly 

 

$url = 'http://..../'; #an example URL
$password = 'password';
$username = 'username';
filename = 'filename';

$file = 'csvuploads/'.$filename;
$timestamp = time();
$em = date('n', $timestamp); #end month
$ed = date('j', $timestamp); #end day
$ey = date('Y', $timestamp); #end year
$timestamp2 = $timestamp - 150000;
$sm = date('n', $timestamp2); #etc...
$sd = date('j', $timestamp2);
$sy = date('Y', $timestamp2);
$url0 = str_replace('{ey}',$ey,$url);
$url1 = str_replace('{sm}',$sm,$url0);
$url2 = str_replace('{sd}',$sd,$url1);
$url3 = str_replace('{sy}',$sy,$url2);
$url4 = str_replace('{em}',$em,$url3);
$url = str_replace('{ed}',$ed,$url4);
$ch = curl_init();
$handle = fopen($file, 'w+');
echo 'em: '.$em.'<br />ed: '.$ed.'<br />ey: '.$ey.'<br />sm: '.$sm.'<br />sd: '.$sd.'<br />sy: '.$sy.'<br />url: '.$url.'<br />username: '.$row['username'].'<br />password: '.$row['password'].'<br />';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "inc/cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "inc/cookies.txt");
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.':'.$password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $handle);
if (!curl_exec($ch)){
echo 'An error has occured!<br />Code: 8523x8';
exit();
}
curl_close($ch);

 

It creates the file and can output the data, however it gets hung up on the curl_exec(), where it doesn't connect properly.  It loads for about 30 seconds and then gives up.  Any advice?

 

Also, I've tried copy() with even less luck using https://username:password@domain.com/....etc.../.

 

Help appreciated!

[tommyboy123x]

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