PHP CURL is too slow for localhost

Question

I have setup two apps in my WAMP environment. Performance of both the sites is OK. They return data in less than a second. The problem is that when I curl one site from anot

Answer 1

I had the same problem and finally discover that it was coming from two facts :

1. I use Mac OS X Mavericks
2. I accessed my project via the URL http://myproject.local/ because I put a line 127.0.0.1 myproject.local in /etc/hosts

It is because the .local tld is reserved for Bonjour service, and this since Mac OS X Lion (10.7).

Changing the tld for something else fixed the problem.