请求未经验证的网站

Question

I am trying to use PHP's curl() function and for some reason my code does not return any data.

I am making a request to a URL that is unverified:

Here is my code:

<?php
$ch = curl_init("**SENSITIVE URL**");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($result);

curl_close($ch);
?>

If I put in www.google.com it does return the google webpage to my site. I apoligize, but I can't give out the URL for my site but I assure you that directly going to the URL does return data.

Answer 1

You need to tell cURL to ignore the (bad) SSL cert. Try adding the following options:

// Do not verify the cert
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Ignore the "does not match target host name" error
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);