using cURL

[maggias]

Hi,

I was trying to use cURL to do GET / POST request from a PHP in PAMP. I read somewhere that the library was included and it seems to be.

However I can't get it to work properly, I have the following function:

function get_web_page( $url ){
	$options = array(
	        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
	        CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
	        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
	        CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
	        CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "spider", // who am i
	        CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
	        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
	        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
	        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
	 );
	 $ch      = curl_init( $url );    
	 curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );    
	 $content = curl_exec( $ch );    
	 $err     = curl_errno( $ch );    
	 $errmsg  = curl_error( $ch );    
	 $header  = curl_getinfo( $ch );    
	 curl_close( $ch );    
	 $header['errno']   = $err;    
	 $header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;    
	 $header['content'] = $content;    
	 print_r($header);
	 return $content;
}

When trying for example

echo "START<br>";

echo get_web_page("http://google.com/");

echo "END<br>";

I am prompted for a connection method on my phone but then immediately get:
START
Array ( [url] => http://google.com/ [http_code] => 0 [header_size] => 0 [request_size] => 0 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 0 [namelookup_time] => 0 [connect_time] => 0 [pretransfer_time] => 0 [size_upload] => 0 [size_download] => 0 [speed_download] => 0 [speed_upload] => 0 [download_content_length] => 0 [upload_content_length] => 0 [starttransfer_time] => 0 [redirect_time] => 0 [errno] => 7 [errmsg] => couldn't connect to host [content] => ) END

I have also tried requesting local files on the web server

echo get_web_page("http://localhost/textfile.txt");
gives an error that host 0.0.0.0 is invalid
echo get_web_page("http://127.0.0.1/textfile.txt");
seems to time out I only get the START text
echo get_web_page("http://LANIPADDRESS/textfile.txt");
also seems to time out
echo get_web_page("/textfile.txt");
[errno] => 3 [errmsg] => malformed [content]

I have also tried to raise the time out time.

Anyone who knows what the problem might be and how it could be overcome? Some alternative solution that could be used to create requests?

regards,
Magnus