PHP file_get_contents very slow when using full url

Question

I am working with a script (that I did not create originally) that generates a pdf file from an HTML page. The problem is that it is now taking a very long time, like 1-2 mi

Answer 1

Can you try fetching that url, on the server, from the command line? curl or wget come to mind. If those retrieve the URL at a normal speed, then it's not a network problem and most likely something in the apache/php setup.