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Michael Samuel
Michael Samuel

Reputation: 3920

CURL not executing or returning an error

I have a dedicated server hosted at OVH and I have the following PHP CURL script that calls the Facebook Graph API to post on a user wall:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/'.$user.'/feed');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'link='.$link.'&access_token=************');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch)){
   error_log(curl_error($ch));
}
else {
   error_log($response);
}

The expected behavior is that the script should log the facebook response. I noticed a LOT of times, the script doesn't return ANY response at all and not even a CURL error.

I have also a script that uses file_get_contents. I noticed also that every few days I suddenly get a huge amount of connection timed out calling the Facebook Graph API. It happens randomly and for no reason! When I try to call the same URL from browser immediately after it's logged in the error log, it works successfully.

I'm really confused :( Do you think these are connectivity issues with OVH servers or the Graph API or what?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 916

Answers (1)

John Mc Murray
John Mc Murray

Reputation: 363

wanted to comment, not post an answer but I don't have enough rep :(

For https using curl I usually add:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Upvotes: 1

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