How to use a SOCKS 5 proxy with cURL?

Question

Normal proxies (ex: 72.41.132.22:3128) work well with cURL, however when I use SOCKS 5 proxies with username/pass, It just gives me \"[1\" on the page.

Answer 1

For those looking to connect via a hostname(localhost?), and it's not working with CURLPROXY_SOCKS5, you can try CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME);

In some earlier PHP versions, you will have to do:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, 7);