php Curl error: Failure when receiving data from the peer

Question

I had a basic Curl script which basically executed a script on remote server. I was working fine from around 6 months.

Yesterday it stopped working, and was giving back following error.

Curl error: Failure when receiving data from the peer

Would like to know if anyone knows on which condition the curl would returned such error?

Wrikken · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-09 11:00:52Z

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When dealing with problem with curl, run it again with:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR,  fopen('php://output', 'w'));

Usually the exact error message is in there somewhere.

Fixed: CURLOPT_STDERR indeed needs a stream resource as @Lübnah states in the comments, and @Roman tried to edit in (although earlier reviewers denied the edit, I've now included it in the answer).

edited Sep 9, 2014 at 11:00

answered Jun 21, 2010 at 19:48

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3 Comments

jtanmay Over a year ago

I am already doing your suggestion, and it gives me the error which I mentioned above. Error code : 56. And error printed out in file is : Failure when receiving data from the peer. Thanks for your suggestion though.

Wrikken Over a year ago

Sounds like a TCP problem. What happens if you increase the timeout> And are you sending more headers the just a GET / POST? (i.e. host etc.)? If not, what happens if you add them, and vice-versa?

Matthemattics Over a year ago

I had to change the 2nd line to curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR, fopen('php://output', 'w')); before this worked for me.

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