PHP5 giving failed to open stream: HTTP request failed error when using fopen

Question

This problem seems to have been discussed in the past everywhere on google and here, but I have yet to find a solution.

A very simple fopen gives me a

Answer 1

Are you getting "HTTP request failed" without further details? The socket timeout could be expired. This default to 60 seconds. See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.socket-set-timeout.php