cURL request using socks5 proxy fails when using P

Question

cURL + proxy noob here, having a hard time. I'm having trouble trying to retrieve a web page from a remote secure server via a proxy. Everything has apparently been set up correctly by a remote dev, such that the following command line instruction works and returns what we're looking for:

curl -k --socks5-hostname localhost:xxxx https://hostname/

However, the following PHP does not echo the requested webpage. Instead it echoes the error 'Couldn't resolve host name':

$proxy = 'localhost:xxxx';
$url = 'https://hostname/';
//$proxyauth = 'user:password';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $proxyauth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$curl_scraped_page = curl_exec($ch);
$error = curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if ($error)
    echo $error;
elseif ($curl_scraped_page)
    echo $curl_scraped_page;

If the $url is changed to a public page, such as Google, the request is successful and everyone is happy.

The connection requires an SSH tunnel if that changes anything at all. The tunnel is open and functioning, as proven by the command line request succeeding.

Is there something obvious that is being missed here?

Answer 1

It looks like CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME is not defined in PHP, but you can explicitly use its value which equals 7.

Try this:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, 7);