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    copied!<p>I am trying to read JSON from a URL and I can't get cURL to retrieve the data.</p> <p>I have the following PHP:</p> <pre><code>$curl = curl_init($url); $options = array( CURLOPT_URL =&gt; $url, CURLOPT_HEADER =&gt; false, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT =&gt; 5, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT =&gt; 5, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER =&gt; true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER =&gt;array('Accept: application/json', "Content-type: application/json"), CURLOPT_FAILONERROR =&gt; FALSE, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER =&gt; FALSE, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST =&gt; FALSE ); curl_setopt_array($curl, $options); $response = curl_exec($curl); print "curl_error returned: ".curl_error($curl)."\n &lt;br /&gt;\n"; $status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); print "Status of HTTP: ".$status."\n"; $response = json_decode($response); print_r($response) </code></pre> <p>The problem is that this returns as:</p> <pre><code>curl_error returned: couldn't connect to host Status of HTTP: 0 </code></pre> <p>The JSON data I am reading is about 300 characters total, and is not formatted (does this matter?) What I mean by not formatted is that the JSON is all on one line.</p> <p>I tried using fopen() and file_get_contents(), but that did the same thing (returned nothing).</p> <p>Another problem I am encountering is the time it takes to connect. When I visit the URL in browser it renders the JSON immediately, but when I use cURL (or file_get_contents() for that matter) it takes a very long time to complete. That's why I specifically limited the timeouts. If I let the time outs go with not limit, the page renders after about 2 minutes with the same results as with the time out.</p> <p>I'm not sure how I can read this URL now. To give a description of the URL contents, it is literally just JSON data rendered on one line (and it's not a large file, it's actually fairly small). If it matters, there is some 'Get' information in the URL.</p> <p>Thanks for any help.</p> <p>Someone suggested that this might be a firewall/connectivity issue, but from my end I am able to send requests to other websites and check their status codes accurately. On the URL's end, I am able to access it through my browser...?</p>
 

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