Using cURL instead of fsockopen on GoDaddy – help

Hi folks,

I have a GoDaddy account and found another post on here that showed these settings as a way to configure cURL:

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, “https://64.202.165.130:3128”);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

OK… so I get that part… but how do you use cURL for the full fsockopen and http_request?

Here’s what I tried… it didn’t work… it may be that I have the wrong proxy, but I want someone who knows something to have a look before I start down the tech support road…

/* All standard function stuff */
function trackback($trackback_url, $title, $excerpt, $ID) {
global $wpdb;
$title = urlencode($title);
$excerpt = urlencode($excerpt);
$blog_name = urlencode(get_settings(‘blogname’));
$tb_url = $trackback_url;
$url = urlencode(get_permalink($ID));
$query_string = “title=$title&url=$url&blog_name=$blog_name&excerpt=$excerpt”;
$trackback_url = parse_url($trackback_url);
$http_request = ‘POST’ . $trackback_url[‘path’] . ($trackback_url[‘query’] ? ‘?’.$trackback_url[‘query’] : ”) . ” HTTP/1.0\r\n”;
$http_request .= ‘Host: ‘.$trackback_url[‘host’].”\r\n”;
$http_request .= ‘Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=’.get_settings(‘blog_charset’).”\r\n”;
$http_request .= ‘Content-Length: ‘.strlen($query_string).”\r\n”;
$http_request .= “User-Agent: WordPress/” . get_settings(‘version’);
$http_request .= “\r\n\r\n”;
$http_request .= $query_string;
if ( ” == $trackback_url[‘port’] )
$trackback_url[‘port’] = 80;

/* This is what I tried, using what I could decipher from other places on the ‘net */

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, “https://64.202.165.130:3128”);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $trackback_url[‘host’]);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $trackback_url[‘port’]);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $httprequest);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

/*this is the fsockopen process */

$fs = @fsockopen($trackback_url[‘host’], $trackback_url[‘port’], $errno, $errstr, 4);
@fputs($fs, $http_request);

All assistance repaid with many good vibes sent your way!
Thanks!