php str get html,php - str_get_html doesn't work and return blank - Stack Overflow

I got a blank screen after I run below code

$html = getSslPage('https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/3aev89/kim_jongun_claims_to_have_cured_aids_ebola_and/');

function getSslPage($url) {

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

return $result;

}

$html = str_get_html($html);

echo $html;

the hardest part of debugging it is it work sometime with other url. I wonder why coz the pages have the same DOM structure. Anyone have idea why is it happening?