$url = 'http://google.com';
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, '1');
$states = curl_exec($curl);
echo curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
returns Failed to connect to 178.62.8.233 port 1080: Connection refused
try this:
$url = 'http://google.com';
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$states = curl_exec($curl);
var_dump($states);
curl_close($curl);
178.62.8.233has anything to do with Google.