I kept thinking it was esniper but somehow my bash settings have a preset proxy that was creating the issue.
https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn: Couldn't connect to server: couldn't connect to host
curl manually to any URL is the same:
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
Run curl with -vvvvvv mode to see the issue:
curl -vvvvvvvvvv http://realtechtalk.com
* About to connect() to proxy 127.0.0.1 port 22000 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... Connection refused
* couldn't connect to host
* Closing connection #0
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
The solution is to disable the proxy you have running.
export
declare -x ALL_PROXY="socks://127.0.0.1:22000/"
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