Hello, The following code is failing and I do not find the cause (please, note that checkurl value and CURLOPT_PROXY are NOT the real values I'm using, of course): $ch = curl_init(); $checkurl = 'http://mycheckhost.com/'; curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 6000); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $checkurl); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, '1.2.3.4:8888' ); $data = curl_exec($ch); $curl_info = curl_getinfo ($ch); if ( $data === false ) { $rtn = false; } else { $rtn = true; } return $rtn; Every curl_exec returns false, and a var_dump of $curl_info looks as follows: array(21) { ["url"]=> string(25) "http://mycheckhost.com/" ["content_type"]=> NULL ["http_code"]=> int(0) ["header_size"]=> int(0) ["request_size"]=> int(99) ["filetime"]=> int(-1) ["ssl_verify_result"]=> int(0) ["redirect_count"]=> int(0) ["total_time"]=> float(1.843925) ["namelookup_time"]=> float(0.00018) ["connect_time"]=> float(0.333015) ["pretransfer_time"]=> float(0) ["size_upload"]=> float(0) ["size_download"]=> float(0) ["speed_download"]=> float(0) ["speed_upload"]=> float(0) ["download_content_length"]=> float(-1) ["upload_content_length"]=> float(-1) ["starttransfer_time"]=> float(0) ["redirect_time"]=> float(0) ["certinfo"]=> array(0) { } } I know it is NOT a problem with the website, because if I comment out the line curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1) disabling the use of a proxy, it works fine. I know the proxy is working fine, because if I use curl from command line like: curl -x 1.2.3.4:8888 http://mycheckhost.com/ It also WORKS fine. So the problem may be or within the PHP5 curl implementation, or in my own code, but I have not been able to find the problem with my code. Any hints? BTW: $ php --version PHP 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.3 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Dec 13 2011 18:37:10) Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies Thanks a lot in advance, -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php