PHP's cURL: How to connect over HTTPS?

Question

I need to do a simple GET request to EC2 Query API with regular URL encoded query string. The protocol is HTTPS. How would I send the request with the help of PHP\'s cURL.

Answer 1

If you want to configure CURL to blindly accept the certificate you can set the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option to false.

$url = 'https://www.example.com/abc';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Blindly accept the certificate
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

var_dump($response);