Curl Get HTTPS Request method

Today in doing a project, need to curl get Third-party API, the other side of the API is HTTPS way.

Before using curl to get an HTTP request, the following error occurred while obtaining the HTTPS request today: Certificate validation failed.

SSL certificate problem, verify the CA cert is OK. Details:error:14090086:ssl routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate Verify failed

Workaround, when Curl request, join

curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_ssl_verifypeer, false); Skip certificate checking  
curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_ssl_verifyhost, true);  Check to see if the SSL encryption algorithm exists from the certificate

Curl HTTPS Request Code

<?php/** Curl Obtain HTTPS request * @param String $url The requested URL * @param Array $header the header * @param sent when requested  
    NT $timeout timeout time, default 30s/function Curl_https ($url, $header =array (), $timeout =30) {$ch = Curl_init (); curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_ssl_verifypeer, false);  Skip certificate Checking curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_ssl_verifyhost, true);  
    Check the SSL encryption algorithm for the existence of curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_url, $url) from the certificate;  
    curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_httpheader, $header);  
    curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_post, true);  
    curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_postfields, "");   
    curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_returntransfer, true);  
      
    curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_timeout, $timeout);  
      
    $response = curl_exec ($ch);  
    if ($error =curl_error ($ch)) {die ($error);  
      
    } curl_close ($ch);  
      
return $response;  
}//Call $url = ' https://www.example.com/api/message.php ';  
      
$header = Array (' Content-type:application/json '); $responsE = Curl_https ($url, $header, 5);  
Echo $response; ?>