Why does cURL return an empty string?

Question

I\'m having a problem with PHP\'s cURL returning an empty string with some URL\'s. I\'m trying to parse the OG metadata of different webpages and it works with all website

Answer 1

This is what did it for me. It was looking for SSL verificaiton, which I happened to not need in this specific case.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);