How to use a SOCKS 5 proxy with cURL?

Question

Normal proxies (ex: 72.41.132.22:3128) work well with cURL, however when I use SOCKS 5 proxies with username/pass, It just gives me \"[1\" on the page.

Answer 1

You need to tell cURL the proxy is a SOCKS5 proxy, otherwise cURL assumes it's an HTTP proxy:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);

From the docs:

CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE

Either CURLPROXY_HTTP (default) or CURLPROXY_SOCKS5.