cURL error: Could not resolve host

Question

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<?php

$url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan";
 $ch = curl_init(urlencode($url));
  echo $ch;
  // used to spoof that coming from a real browser so we don't get blocked by some sites
  $useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 4);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 8);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 10);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

  $content = curl_exec($ch);



  $info = curl_getinfo($ch);

if ($content === false || $info['http_code'] != 200) {
  $content = "No cURL data returned for $url [". $info['http_code']. "]";
  if (curl_error($ch))
    $content .= "\n". curl_error($ch);
  }
else {
  // 'OK' status; format $output data if necessary here:
  echo "...";
}
  echo $content;
  curl_close($ch);
?>

when i paste the same address in browser i am able to access the webpage. but when i run this script i get the error message. Can anyone please help me. Thanks

Answer 1

$ch = curl_init($url);

instead of

$ch = curl_init(urlencode($url));

Answer 2

Well.

If you remove urlencode() with instantiating your $ch-var, you go just fine. urlencode() is definitely wrong here.

Good:

 $ch = curl_init($url);

Bad:

 $ch = curl_init(urlencode($url));

Answer 3

remove the urlencode($url) it should be:

 $ch = curl_init($url);

Answer 4

Remove the urlencode call.