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

Do you actually have the curl binary installed? You can have the curl library installed with PHP without actually having the curl binary on your system. Drop to a shell prompt and type curl. (If it's standard on OSX then please forgive my ignorance - I'm not a Mac guy)