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.

Is there a way to use SOCKY 5 proxies with cURL ?

$proxy = "cagsan:[email protected]:34792";  $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); $curl_scraped_page = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); 

Answer 1

You need to tell cURL the proxy is a SOCKS5 proxy, otherwise cURL assumes it's an HTTP proxy:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5); 

From the docs:

CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE

Either CURLPROXY_HTTP (default) or CURLPROXY_SOCKS5.