cURL and PHP GET

In order to manage SSL use

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Anyway, use echo curl_error($ch) to know about errors. It's better if you use try..catch block to intercept errors and btw it's ususally better if you post the code here when you ask a question :-) You have posted the url and the expected repoonse, but not the code which fails and we can't not simply guess what's going wrong.

Okay I will try a good example of this may be available at koders.com now  http://code.ohloh.net

The following was modified code I wrote  from 2005:
This was anonymous-ized  for security and legal reasons but it should get you going

I recall it is essential your request xml in this case the string $headr contains
the xml request message contents and the result shows the response.
In this case a proxy was also in use but I imagine minus the proxy settings should work.
REMEMBER the key is to have an accurate request message to get a proper response and to have full authorization for the transaction as well.

<?
       $URL = "https://remoteserverxyz.xyz.com";

       $headr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>";
       $headr .="<FDXSubscriptionRequest xmlns:api=\"http://www.remotexyz.com/fsmapi\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"";
       $headr .=" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=\"FDXSubscriptionRequest.xsd\">";
       $headr .="<RequestHeader>";
       $headr .="<CustomerTransactionIdentifier>String</CustomerTransactionIdentifier>";
       $headr .="<AccountNumber>333496800</AccountNumber>";
       $headr .="</RequestHeader>";
       $headr .="<Contact>";
       $headr .="<PersonName>Perry Rhodan</PersonName>";
       $headr .="<City>New York</City>";
       $headr .="<StateOrProvinceCode>NY</StateOrProvinceCode>";
       $headr .="<PostalCode>11138</PostalCode>";
       $headr .="<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>";
       $headr .="</Address>";
       $headr .="</FDXSubscriptionRequest>";


if (isset($_GET["site"])) { $URL = $_GET["site"]; }
$ch = curl_init();
echo "URL = $URL <br>\n";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, TRUE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,"remoteserverxyz.com:3128");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 520);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $headr);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);            // Where the req uest was made
                                                      // the $result string contains the response xml
echo "<hr><br>\n";
echo 'Errors: ' . curl_errno($ch) . ' ' . curl_error($ch) . '<br><br>';
echo "<hr><br>\n";
curl_close ($ch);
print "result - $result";
echo "<hr><br>\n";

?>

As for the SSL part I believe you can specify the host as https: and perhaps specify the SSL_VERIFYPEER as TRUE. Not sure about how to handle a private key there
Try doing a search for  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, TRUE);
and find that code.  the repository of open source code may be of help in addition.

Better yet do a site search  in google search on only the site site:curl.haxx.se "CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, TRUE" or "using SSL" maybe. This is the home of curl  searching it should get you right to the sample or man page you need.

I recommend Ray's demo, especially if you are using PHP less than version 5.3.8.  The version of 'libcurl' included in previous versions doesn't do CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER correctly on several sites I checked.

HI Savant,

I tired to use your sample code above and it did begin to work, but it returned an error, any idea what this error is?

CURL FAIL: https://securegate.nmp.neuroticmedia.net/WebServices/CatalogService.asmx/artist_export_since_date?APIKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&Date=04/01/14 TIMEOUT=5, CURL_ERRNO=28array(22) {
  ["url"]=>
  string(155) "https://securegate.nmp.neuroticmedia.net/WebServices/CatalogService.asmx/artist_export_since_date?APIKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&Date=04/01/14"
  ["content_type"]=>
  NULL
  ["http_code"]=>
  int(0)
  ["header_size"]=>
  int(0)
  ["request_size"]=>
  int(571)
  ["filetime"]=>
  int(-1)
  ["ssl_verify_result"]=>
  int(0)
  ["redirect_count"]=>
  int(0)
  ["total_time"]=>
  float(5.003475)
  ["namelookup_time"]=>
  float(0.186635)
  ["connect_time"]=>
  float(0.210813)
  ["pretransfer_time"]=>
  float(0.281978)
  ["size_upload"]=>
  float(0)
  ["size_download"]=>
  float(0)
  ["speed_download"]=>
  float(0)
  ["speed_upload"]=>
  float(0)
  ["download_content_length"]=>
  float(-1)
  ["upload_content_length"]=>
  float(0)
  ["starttransfer_time"]=>
  float(0)
  ["redirect_time"]=>
  float(0)
  ["certinfo"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["redirect_url"]=>
  string(0) ""
}
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<strong>https://securegate.nmp.neuroticmedia.net/WebServices/CatalogService.asmx/artist_export_since_date?APIKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&Date=04/01/14</strong>

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Please see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html

Error code 28 means "timed out."  You might want to increase the time or contact the publisher of the web service to see if the service is up at the moment.

Check the function definition and function call for the value of $timeout.

Worked perfect, just need to fix the timeout issue..Not an issue with the script.

Gr8!  Thanks for using EE and thanks for the points, ~Ray