cUrl in controller

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Hi,

I'm trying to test some cUrl functionality. I'm using the code mentioned but I get:

There has been an error with your request.

However, accessing the controller directly, it runs fine. The reason I am testing cUrl is what I want to put it into the custom scripts section of a report so the function is run on a schedule.

I am using the exact same cUrl syntax for requests to the REST API without issue so why is it failing here?

Code Snippet

public function testcurlhere() {

    RNCPHP\ConnectAPI::getCurrentContext()->ApplicationContext = "Get Google Places API";
    $url = "https://{SITE_NAME}.custhelp.com/cc/{CONTROLLER_NAME}/{FUNCTION_NAME}";

    if (!function_exists("\curl_init")){
        \load_curl();
    }
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,6000);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, TRUE);
    $body = \curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    var_dump($body);

}