Problems with Curl

[EchoFool]

I have a simple curl script which sends a post to a website, but although it 100% works, my "or die( show ever) " part of the script still displays which makes no sense.... this is my script:

 

<?php
$curl_handle = curl_init ();
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL,$row['IncentiveUrl']);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'UserID='.$UserID);
$response = curl_exec ($curl_handle) or die ("There has been an error
connecting to your POST method site.");
curl_close ($curl_handle);
?>

 

It works perfect but it always shows:

 

There has been an error connecting to your POST method site.

 

Why might this be ?

[rhodesa]

does your page you post to print anything out? if not, it will run the die() statement. instead, after you execute it, check curl_error() or check the HTTP Response Code with curl_getinfo()

[EchoFool]

Well i changed:

    $response = curl_exec ($curl_handle) or die ("There has been an error
    connecting to your POST method site.");

 

To:

    $response = curl_exec ($curl_handle) or die ("The error was: ". curl_error($curl_handle));

 

 

and got this in return :

 

The error was: couldn't connect to host

 

Yes it did connect and send the post as the script that recieved the POST processed it.. =/

[rhodesa]

the code should look like this:

$response = curl_exec ($curl_handle);
if($error = curl_error($curl_handle))
  die ("The error was: ". $error);