PHP Curl does not work on localhost?

Question

I am using MAMP Pro 1.9.4 on Mac OSX
In phpinfo() I see curl is enabled

cURL support    enabled
cURL Information    7.20.0
Age 3
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Answer 1

It's probably a firewall issue. Curl by default tries to use port 1080, which is probably not open on your localhost / router / ISP.