Trouble Connecting with BigCommerce API - api

Question

I'm using the following to try and test a GET request on the BigCommerce API locally, but I'm getting a "Failed to connect to api.bigcommerce.com port 443: Connection refused". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
$api_url = 'https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/STORE-HASH/v3/customers';
$headers = array(
"Accept: application/json",
"Content-Type: application/json",
"X-Auth-Client: xxxxxxxx",
"X-Auth-Token:xxxxxxxx"
);
$chbig = curl_init();
curl_setopt($chbig, CURLOPT_URL, $api_url);
curl_setopt($chbig, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($chbig, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt( $chbig, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );
curl_setopt( $chbig, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );
curl_setopt( $chbig, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
$result = curl_exec($chbig); //execute request
$http_status = (string) curl_getinfo($chbig, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if(curl_errno($chbig))
{
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($chbig);
}
curl_close($chbig);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($http_status);
print_r($result);```

Answer 1

I really like to use Postman for testing out my API requests. You may want to download that as well, if you have not already.
Here is the code that I am using to connect to my customers
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/{STORE_HASH}/v3/customers",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"X-Auth-Token: {TOKEN}",
"X-Auth-Client:{CLIENT_ID}"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl); // makes the request
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
You may be having issues due to the Accept and/or Content-type headers. I would remove those headers and only use the 'X-Auth-Token' and 'X-Auth-Client' headers for GET requests. Good luck!