CURL and HTTPS, "Cannot resolve host"

Viewed 167825

I'm trying to fetch the contents of a page using CURL. The page that is doing the fetching is https and the page it is trying to fetch is also https. I'm getting an error "Couldn't resolve host" with all of the settings I try.

$c=curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
//curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:x.x.x) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/x.x");
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
//curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, TRUE);
//curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);

$html=curl_exec($c);

if($html === false) {
    echo curl_error($c);
}
else {
    echo 'Operation completed without any errors';
}   


curl_close($c);

Any ideas?

11 Answers

If you do it on Windows XAMPP/WAMP it probaly won't work as in my case.

I solved the problem setting up Laravel's Homestead/Vagrant solution to create my (Ubuntu) development environment - it has built-in: Nginx, PHP 5.6, PHP 7.3, PHP 7.2, PHP 7.1, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Node... to name just a few.

See here for info how to set up the environment - it's really worth the effort!

Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. No more worrying about messing up your operating system! Vagrant boxes are completely disposable. If something goes wrong, you can destroy and re-create the box in minutes!

Then you can easily switch PHP versions or set up more virtual hosts, new databases just in seconds.

After tried all above, still can't resolved my issue yet. But got new solution for my problem.

At server where you are going to make a request, there should be a entry of your virtual host.

sudo vim /etc/hosts

and insert

192.xxx.x.xx www.domain.com

The reason if you are making request from server to itself then, to resolve your virtual host or to identify it, server would need above stuff, otherwise server won't understand your requesting(origin) host.

add yourlocalhost
ex. 127.0.0.1 cards.localhost in the /etc/hosts directory. Now restart apache server

Related