I am trying to use Luminati.oi proxy service to crawl URLs but there seems to be a problem with my server connecting to the proxy and utilizing the CURLOPT_PROXY functionality.
$curl = curl_init('http://lumtest.com/myip.json');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'http://example:24000');
curl_exec($curl);
$result = curl_exec($curl); echo $result;
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
I get no response at all from the target URL and the curl_error() function returns Curl error: Failed to connect to exmaple port 24000: Connection refused there are several variations on how to compose the CURL that Luminati.io provides, none seem to work.
If I remove the CURLOPT_PROXY option and just send the request direct from my server with no proxy, it works just fine and I get the correct response back from the target URL. So my server seems okay with CURL just not the proxy function.
The URL and port for the proxy server at luminati.io seem to work fine when using the desktop proxy manager. So the proxy service seems to work okay, the target URL is good and my server can use CURL with no problem, so it seems the issue is isolated around the CURLOPT_PROXY not working. The good people over at Luminati.io think there is some type of server setting or firewall in my Apache Linux server that wont allow the proxy connection to occur, I can't find this setting anywhere and Hostgator seems useless and apathetic when asked.
So I'm hoping someone can provide some greater insight into why CURLOPT_PROXY function wont work.
