Why I can't get website content using CURL

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I'm really confused. My problem is I can't get website content using curl I've tried to display the result but it always the same result, it always return an empty string..

Here is my function :

function get_html_content($url, $timeout=10) { // fake user agent $userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent); //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); $string = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $string; }

Is there anything wrong with my code above, because whenever I try the above code, it always return an empty string.

I copied your code into a test file on my server, and it works. Are sure you are echoing the returned result? — Joseph Silber
– Joseph Silber, Commented Jan 2, 2012 at 3:41
yes I do.. Here is my code where calling the above function $result = get_html_content('google.com'); echo $result; — Kira Yamato
– Kira Yamato, Commented Jan 2, 2012 at 4:04
oops sorry, I knew the problem already.. I forgot that the network I connected to is using proxy, and it seems that it's filtered by the proxy.. I've added CURLOPT_PROXY and insert my office proxy setting, and the code above work.. Thank you for your fast response :) — Kira Yamato
– Kira Yamato, Commented Jan 2, 2012 at 4:08
Hi Joseph, how to delete this question / mark this question as answered — Kira Yamato
– Kira Yamato, Commented Jan 2, 2012 at 4:14
@KiraYamato Please answer your own question and then mark that as accepted. — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Jan 2, 2012 at 5:01

Raj · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-02 04:47:48Z

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As mentioned in the comments, adding

CURLOPT_PROXY

with appropriate proxy settings solved the problem.

answered Jan 2, 2012 at 4:47

Raj

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