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

Yes, is a DNS lookup problem.

On Windows 7 x64 i managed to overcome this issue

(curl call between applications on different ports in localhost) by editing the host file ( C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc ).

Un-comment on the line that says: 127.0.0.1 localhost , reboot and you're done.