PHP: Curl is still not returning the sourcecode

Question

I have now tried a lot of different solutions but non of those curl settings has ever worked... I just want to get the sourcecode of the webpage back...

And yeah, I know there is file_get_contents(). But I need and want to use curl instand of file_get_contents(). Where is the error? How can I get the content of the webpage with curl?

$url = "https://google.de";

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
//curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
//    "API-Token: " . APITOKEN . "",
//    "API-Secret: " . APISECRET . "",
//));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
echo "This is the response...:\n" . $response;

$response is always empty... Even if I save the variable to a text file... Here the picture which proves it!

Picture

Greetings and Thank You!

Please use `curl_error` and `curl_errno` to show what errors you got. — Razon Yang, Jun 28 '17 at 01:28
Why do you want to use curl instead of `file_get_contents()`? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Jun 28 '17 at 01:28
Possible duplicate of [PHP CURL & HTTPS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4372710/php-curl-https) — chris85, Jun 28 '17 at 01:36

Clarence · Answer 1 · 2017-06-28T01:35:17.147

Please dump curl_error($curl). Then you will get "SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate".

You can simply set the following options to avoid this error:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Warn: the above solution disables SSL verification and is not secure. A secure solution is to set the certification of cURL:

curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, "PATH_TO/cacert.pem");

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '17 at 02:15

            If you will check error  then you will show below error

        if(!curl_exec($curl)){
          die('Error: "' . curl_error($curl) . '" - Code: ' . curl_errno($curl));
           }

 Error: "SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed" - Code: 60

    To solve this issue you can follow this link-

    https://wehavefaces.net/fixing-ssl-certificate-problem-when-performing-https-requests-in-php-e3b2bb5c58f6

PHP: Curl is still not returning the sourcecode

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