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
Features
         


        

Answer 1

If you are behind a proxy, you could try adding CURLOPT_PROXY, for example (assuming your proxy is on 192.168.1.2 port 3128):

$ch = curl_init($geocodeURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "192.168.1.2:3128");
$result = curl_exec($ch);

Hope this helps.