What is blocking fsockopen?

Question

After struggling for half a day, I finally manage to get reCAPTCHA to work by converting this function:

function _recaptcha_http_post($host, $path, $data, $p         


        

Answer 1

I might be wrong, but you use $port = 80 in fsockopen() while in cURL case this variable is not used at all. I had same problem when tried to connect to SSL via port 80 instead of port 443; as far as I know, cURL checks SSL by default and connects accordingly.

Also, try running cURL with CURLOPT_VERBOSE to see what it does.