Need assistance cURL'ing a link - php

Question

I am trying to curl the following link:
http://soundstreamradio.serverroom.net:7424/currentsong?sid=1
It's just a page that displays plain text. This is the cURL PHP code I'm using:
function get_web_page( $url )
{
$user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0';
$options = array(
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST =>"GET", //set request type post or get
CURLOPT_POST =>false, //set to GET
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $user_agent, //set user agent
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE =>"cookie.txt", //set cookie file
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR =>"cookie.txt", //set cookie jar
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
);
$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
$header['content'] = $content;
return $header;
}
And this is what I'm using to call the script:
$result = get_web_page("http://soundstreamradio.serverroom.net:7424/index.html?sid=1");
if ( $result['errno'] != 0 )
echo "... error: bad url, timeout, redirect loop ...";
if ( $result['http_code'] != 200 )
echo"... error: no page, no permissions, no service ...";
$page = $result['content'];
Now after uploading this to my server and running it, the page just hangs and does nothing, then after the 120 seconds it times out finally displaying all of the error messages (... error: bad url, timeout, redirect loop ..., ... error: no page, no permissions, no service ...)
I'm looking to see if there are any options I can take to pull the data off of this website without the cross domain issues.

Answer 1

Try
echo file_get_contents("http://soundstreamradio.serverroom.net:7424/currentsong?sid=1");
Use curl_exec and other functions for https connections

Answer 2

This is working for me - plain and simple
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://soundstreamradio.serverroom.net:7424/currentsong?sid=1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
this also works
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://soundstreamradio.serverroom.net/currentsong?sid=1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_PORT , 7424);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
if neither of these work then I would suggest looking at your firewall as you are probaly being blocked on port 7424