Title: cURL error 7
Last modified: January 10, 2019

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# cURL error 7

 *  [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * (@castoruk)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-error-7-12/)
 * Hi
 * We have recently been converting a number of website from HTTP to HTTPS and are
   now experiencing a number of errors.
 * When trying to view Report we received error: cURL error 7: Failed to connect
   to api.monsterinsights.com port 443: Connection timed out
 * Also cannot ‘verify credentials’ although I can re-authenticate with the GA.
 * For reference the servers is CentOS 7.6.
 * CURL = 7.29.0
    OpenSSL = 1.0.2k-fips PHP CURL = 7.62.0

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 *  Plugin Author [chriscct7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscct7/)
 * (@chriscct7)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-error-7-12/#post-11075875)
 * Hi there,
    The error you are receiving is because your cURL is well, to say out
   of date would be a dramatic understatement.
 * cURL 7.29 was released on February 6th, 2013, so it’s basically 6 years out of
   date, and 47 versions behind the current version. As such it’s not capable of
   understanding newer HTTPs protocols like the ones that you probably deployed.
 * The solution here is you need to demand that your hosting provider updates this
   immediately or frankly if they are unwilling to do so I would highly recommend
   switching hosting providers.
 * This version of cURL has 46 known, public security vulnerabilities. It is imperative
   that you update.
 * -Chris
 *  Thread Starter [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * (@castoruk)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-error-7-12/#post-11078727)
 * Hi Chris
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * Just to clarify, as there are a couple of different elements called curl.
 * Checking via PHPinfo cURL Information = 7.62.0 and enabled.
 * Via the SSH command curl -V I get “curl 7.29.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)”.
 * I’m not 100% sure if these are two different elements, or one relies on the other?
 *  Thread Starter [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * (@castoruk)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-error-7-12/#post-11100441)
 * Sorry to ask again but is PHPinfo cURL what we are talking about here or is it
   command line curl?
 * Or does the command line (linux) CURL need to be updated?

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-error-7-12/#post-11100441)
 * Status: not resolved