I've had my cURL implementation running successfully for the last few months without hiccups; however, last week I suddenly started to have a problem with one specific website (www.viewmag.com). I can visit the site (and have it resolve) perfectly in a browser, but cURL returns the following:
* About to connect() to www.viewmag.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 205.178.145.65... * Timeout
* connect() timed out!
* Closing connection #0
For sanity, I tried to ping the website with two different boxes, but each ping timed out.
Box 1 (Linux):
ping www.viewmag.com
PING www.viewmag.com (205.178.145.65) 56(84) bytes of data.
Box 2 (Windows):
ping www.viewmag.com
Pinging www.viewmag.com [205.178.145.65] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
My cURL is as follows:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.viewmag.com');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'cURL crawler');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why cURL is failing and why I would be able to visit this site in a browser, but not be able to ping/cURL it? Thanks in advance