Curl Function in GoDaddy Hosting

I use GoDaddy Hosting for this site. A few days ago I tried to use the curl library. Curl was there - but all my calls timed out. I tried different approaches - but all failed. After some google searches I found out why - GoDaddy is using a proxy server.

So if you are using GoDaddy hosting and what to use curl, you should include these lines in the script...

<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,"http://64.202.165.130:3128");

...assuming that $ch is the curl handle.

A full example...

<?php
$url = "http://www.google.com/";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,"http://64.202.165.130:3128");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
$response = curl_exec ($ch);
if(is_int($response)) {
    die("Errors: " . curl_errno($ch) . " : " . curl_error($ch));
}
curl_close ($ch);

print "Remote Site : $url<br /><hr />$response";
?>

Read more about using curl at the GoDaddy support pages...