Here is a simple cURL test. Obviously this domain does not exist yet when I run this script it returns True - huh? I'm just trying to write a PHP script to determine if the URL connects or not.

PHP Code:

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://sfhsfhshfjsdhf.com"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0); 
$status = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch); 
if ($status) 
   { 
     print "true"; 
   } 
else 
   { 
     print "false"; 
   } 


Because you set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, curl_exec will return the data from the page you requested. I think you should get a false if you remove that line, or set it to 0 instead of 1.

Nope...it always returns true...regardless of the URL...

Hmm, that's kinda weird.
Try checking if your script throws an error that is hidden.
error_reporting(E_ALL)

Always returns error 6135...

This is the code that works:

PHP Code:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://mywebsite.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0);
$view = curl_exec($ch);
if (eregi("a string from my site home page", $view))
   {
     echo "ok";
   }
else
   {
     echo "fail";
   }
curl_close($ch); 


Is it that the domain you called for doesn't exist, or only the page? When you type that URL into your browser, do you get a parked page? Could it be something like that, or a 404 error you're seeing in code?