PHP Curl Slowness

Question

For some reason my curl call is very slow. Here is the code I used.

$postData = \"test\"
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch,         


        

Answer 1

The curl functions in php directly use the curl command line tool under *nix systems.

Therefore it really only depends on the network speed since in general curl itself is much faster than a webbrowser since it (by default) does not load any additional data like included pictures, stylesheets etc. of a website.

It might be possible that you are not aware, that the network performance of the server on which you were testing your php script is way worse than on your local computer where you were testing with the browser. Therefore both measurements are not really comparable.