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

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.

Answer 2

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)

Answer 3

It's not about proxy, it's about how to use googleapis.

Add CURLOPT_SSL_ on your code and set them into false

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

Answer 4

It's probably a firewall issue. Curl by default tries to use port 1080, which is probably not open on your localhost / router / ISP.

Answer 5

In MAMP, if you are getting errors when connecting to HTTPS hosts, just set this option:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);

The equivalent by command line is:

curl -k -ssl3 https://www.your-secure-host.com

Answer 6

You may need to set the SSL version and the matching Cipher for $ch:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST, 'TLSv1');

For the exact parameters you can pass to CURLOPT_SSLVERSION see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

Also the following can display errors related to SSL versions being used to help find exact version conflict you have:

$error = curl_error($ch);
echo $error;

More on this command: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php