Failed to connect to rslr.connectbind.com port 8080: Connection refused - php

Question

PHP CURL is refusing to open connection
When I call this url on a browser its opens and send an sms
http://rslr.connectbind.com:8080/bulksms/bulksms?username=josy-mbongocash&password=kipese73&type=0&dlr=1&destination=254719401837&source=MbongoCash&message=METHODE-PATRICK
Response OK : 1701|254719401837|e8fbf5af-d7c2-4f34-a80f-94803ffee9d5
when I try calling it with curl
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_PORT => "8080",
CURLOPT_URL => "http://rslr.connectbind.com:8080/bulksms/bulksms?
username=josy-
mbongocash&password=kipese73&type=0&dlr=1&destination=254719401837&
source=MbongoCash&message=METHODE-PATRICK",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"Postman-Token: 09ba239d-fcb7-4755-8032-7ff4f768147f",
"cache-control: no-cache"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
RESPONSE :Failed to connect to rslr.connectbind.com port 8080: Connection refused

Answer 1

With CURL
$url="http://rslr.connectbind.com/bulksms/bulksms";
$ch = curl_init();
$variables = array(
'username' => 'Your user name',
'password' => 'Your password',
'type' => '0',
'dlr' => '1',
'destination' => "Mobile number with country code",
'source' => 'Brand Name',
'message' => "sms",
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $variables);
echo $result = curl_exec($ch);
Without CURL
$url="http://rslr.connectbind.com/bulksms/bulksms";
$variables = array(
'username' => 'Your user name',
'password' => 'Your password',
'type' => '0',
'dlr' => '1',
'destination' => "Mobile number with country code",
'source' => 'Brand Name',
'message' => "sms",
);
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($variables),
),
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
echo $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

Answer 2

The issue was the port I changed and it worked