PHP/cURL error with https again

Question

Error is "Could not resolve host: (hostname); Host not found."

This randomly started happening again on my development computer. It works fine on the production server, so whatever. But I still need to test this here. Here's the code:

function useCurl($xml,$cert,$host){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, $cert);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

if (curl_error($ch)) {
 print "cURL error: ". curl_error($ch) ."\n<br/>";
}

 curl_close($ch);
 return $result;
}

I know about the security vulnerabilities with these settings. But right now, I care more about getting this to work. HTTP addresses of course work fine, but those with HTTPS return no content and give an error about not being able to find the hostname. I've searched and didn't find anything useful this time.

Answer 1

Have you tried adding curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 443); so that it connects to the server on the ssl enabled port?