PHP CURL Never Ending Request - php

Question

I recently uploaded my project from localhost to a live hosting server. In my project I have used a CURL request, which worked absolutely fine on localhost up til now.
As soon as I moved it on live server (Arizonawebservices.com), that CURL request stopped working. When my page sends the CURL request, it keeps on processing and never returns any output.
I checked server for CURL support (using "which curl" command in PHP's exec() function), and yes it has CURL support enabled.
Also created a test page for manually shooting CURL requests and check if it works ok. Tried www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, and many other URLs, all are working fine, but when I put my original API URL "https://dataviz.sandbox.rcoanalytics.com:10105/oauth/token" in it. It starts behaving like before. I am completely unable to get any response from that CURL request. Any help would be appreciated.
Used following code for testing purpose:
function httpPost($url,$params)
{
$postData = '';
if (!empty($params)) {
//create name value pairs seperated by &
foreach($params as $k => $v)
{
$postData .= $k . '='.$v.'&';
}
$postData = rtrim($postData, '&');
}
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
if ($postData != "") {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($postData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
}
$output=curl_exec($ch);
if($output === false)
{
echo "Error Number:".curl_errno($ch)."<br>";
echo "Error String:".curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
$params = array(
);
echo httpPost("https://dataviz.sandbox.rcoanalytics.com:10105/oauth/token", $params);

Answer 1

The url has an SSL error, so in the cURL request when cURL tries to verify the host it blocks you from accessing the address.
use the following:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
This is obviously insecure method to access the URL but for a host like this one it will do the trick.