Curling HTTPS does not resolve - php

Question

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $curl_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, dirname(__FILE__)."/cacert.pem");
// Edit: prior variable $postFields should be $postfields;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_errno($ch))
{
echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
print_r($result);
$array_json = json_decode($result, true);
I tried to do a curl to a https site, it say the dns cannot be resolve. But that site I can access it by browser
https://example.com [example]

Answer 1

I did test on my own local installment
$ch = curl_init();
$curl_url = 'https://example.com';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $curl_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
//curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, dirname(__FILE__)."/cacert.pem");
// Edit: prior variable $postFields should be $postfields;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_errno($ch))
{
echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
print_r($result);
It works correct and print result. I suppose you problem is in this string
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, dirname(__FILE__)."/cacert.pem");
You could past wrong path or load wrong certificate. I comment this line in my example.