CURL and HTTPS, “Cannot resolve host”

Question

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 erro

Answer 1

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

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