What is the curl error 52 “empty reply from server”?

Question

I have a cron job setup on one server to run a backup script in PHP that is hosted on another server.

The command I\'ve been using is

curl -sS http://w         


        

Answer 1

Another common reason for an empty reply is timeout. Check all the hops from where the cron job is running from to your PHP/target server. There's probably a device/server/nginx/LB/proxy somewhere along the line that terminates the request earlier than you expected, resulting in an empty response.