PHP cURL is not working on Xampp Windows 10 - php

Question

I am using curl to fetch data from different web service hosted on different location on the web. I am trying to fetch the data to my localhost.
$token1="SOMETOKENXX";
$mobileNumber= $_POST['number'];
$postData = array(
'mobile' =>$mobileNumber
);
$service_url ='http://api.hashtagloyalty.in/merchants/users/users_profile';
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $service_url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PORT, 8080);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT , "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.52 Safari/537.17");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($postData));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json','Authorization:'.$token1));
$curl_response = curl_exec($curl);
// echo($curl_response);
if ($curl_response === false)
{
$info = curl_getinfo($curl);
die('error occured during curl exec. Additioanl info: ' . var_export($info));
}else{
echo "TRUE";
}
curl_close($curl);
I am not able to fetch the result on xampp localhost but working on GoDaddy live server.
I am working on latest version of xampp 7.2.6 and Windows 10 OS
I am accessing my localhost on port 8080 means my localhots url is localhost:8080 .
How can I know if something is blocking my request?
There is no result and giving empty result.
Please help
error
array ( 'url' => 'http://api.hashtagloyalty.in/merchants/users/users_profile', 'content_type' => NULL, 'http_code' => 0, 'header_size' => 0, 'request_size' => 0, 'filetime' => -1, 'ssl_verify_result' => 0, 'redirect_count' => 0, 'total_time' => 20.204, 'namelookup_time' => 1.0E-6, 'connect_time' => 0.0, 'pretransfer_time' => 0.0, 'size_upload' => 0.0, 'size_download' => 0.0, 'speed_download' => 0.0, 'speed_upload' => 0.0, 'download_content_length' => -1.0, 'upload_content_length' => -1.0, 'starttransfer_time' => 0.0, 'redirect_time' => 0.0, 'redirect_url' => '', 'primary_ip' => '', 'certinfo' => array ( ), 'primary_port' => 0, 'local_ip' => '', 'local_port' => 0, )error occured during curl exec. Additioanl info:

Answer 1

Probably a firewall issue
cURL uses port 1080 which is probably not open
Several fixes:
Open port 1080 in your firewall/router
or
Specify a (working) port for cURL
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PORT, PortYouWantHere)

Answer 2

curl is not working because my organisation's proxy is blocking the request. So I have added the below code and it worked like charm :)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxyhostandpass);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $proxyusernamepass);