PHP file_get_contents() returns “failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!”

Question

I am having problems calling a url from PHP code. I need to call a service using a query string from my PHP code. If I type the url into a browser, it works ok, but if I use

Answer 1

I got a similar problem.

Due to timeout !

Timeout can be indicated like this :

$options = array(
    'http' => array(
        'header'  => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
        'method'  => "POST",
        'content' => http_build_query($data2),
        'timeout' => 30,
    ),
);
$context = stream_context_create($options); $retour =
$retour = @file_get_contents("http://xxxxx.xxx/xxxx", false, $context);