[SOLVED] CURL having some tricky problems!

[xenophobia]

Hi guys, do you know why these code not functioning??

 

$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.google.com/');
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1');
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

var_dump($buffer);

 

I get boolean(false). I am sure that my curl library are functioning. I m using mozilla firefox 3.0.

PHP5Apache2 server in Windows XP professional platform.

[ratcateme]

i am not sure how your cURL handles redirects when i run your code i get an error page telling me google has moved to google.co.nz

try setting this

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

 

Scott.

[xenophobia]

Same... ???

[Jenski]

Hi ,

Are you on a network?

I had the same problem, after tearing my hair out I found out it was because I hadn't defined our proxy server e.g.

 

$proxy="<proxy_ip>:<proxy_port_no>";
$ch = curl_init('http://www.google.co.uk/'); // the target
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return the page
$result = curl_exec($ch); // executing the cURL
curl_close($ch); // Closing connection
echo $result;

[xenophobia]

You are right!!! I had a proxy server. After adding the statement, everything work fine!

 

Thanks!