PHP Curl Slowness

Question

For some reason my curl call is very slow. Here is the code I used.

$postData = \"test\"
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch,         


        

Answer 1

Curl has the ability to tell exactly how long each piece took and where the slowness is (name lookup, connect, transfer time). Use curl_getinfo (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php) after you run curl_exec.

If curl is slow, it is generally not the PHP code, it's almost always network related.