Question

I am attempting to learn cURL to use a JSON web service. I tried a couple tutorials online and none seem to be helping.

I want to get to this web address: https://uat.petfirsthealthcare.com/pfh.service.webservices/coreservice.svc/json/GetColorList
and return the results to use in another call. But when I try, I don’t get any thing back.

I used this:

$request = 'https://uat.petfirsthealthcare.com/pfh.service.webservices/coreservice.svc/json/GetColorList';
curl_init($request);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exe($session);
curl_close($session);
echo $response;

When you just go to the URL it return JSON just fine. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Answer 1

This is TESTED and WORKS!

<?php

$request = 'https://uat.petfirsthealthcare.com/pfh.service.webservices/coreservice.svc/json/GetColorList';
$session = curl_init();
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL, $request);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3); 
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); 
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$response = curl_exec($session);
curl_close($session);
var_dump($response);