cURL HTTPS issue on Blacknight Minimus Windows hosting

Atomic Pineapple

Just wondering if anyone is using PHP on Blacknights minimus hosting solution (windows), I am messing around with PHP at the minute and I want to use cURL to pull some info from a website hosted using HTTPS.

I have serious trouble getting it to work on my Blacknight hosting but it works fine when hosted elsewhere.

Here is my code:

$url = 'https://www.google.ie';

$curl_handle=curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CAINFO, dirname(__FILE__)."/cacert.pem");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 2000);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$raw = curl_exec($curl_handle);
echo curl_error($curl_handle);

curl_close($curl_handle);

I got the cacert from here - https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem

The error I get is:

[font=Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif]SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed[/font]

But again only on Blacknight minimus windows hosting.

So the issue seems to be that Blacknight server either is missing some configuration or there is some insecure proxy the request goes through? Just wondering if anyone has successfully done this on such hosting or do I need another hosting offering to be able to achieve this?

Ziycon

Have you contacted Blacknight support about this yet?

Atomic Pineapple

Ziycon wrote: »

Have you contacted Blacknight support about this yet?

Yep, tried earlier to contact their technical support but was unable to get a response.

zig

Have you tried this solution or the solution after it?
http://stackoverflow.com/a/10566962/1652535

Edit: Don't expect too much assistance for a shared hosting package (with any company). Shared hosting restricts the ability to change settings easily.

Atomic Pineapple

Yeh I've tried the work around SSL approach too but it throws up the same issues.

mneylon

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