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

I just resolved this exact problem by removing the following two options:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

Somehow on the site I was fetching, the POST request to over ten full seconds. If it's GET, it's less than a second.

So... in my wrapper function that does the Curl requests, it now only sets those two options when there is something in $postData