curl slow connect_time

Question

Consider this code in a php file on my VPS server:

Answer 1

Try:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 ); 

The above will prevent cURL from trying IPv6 first.

Answer 2

I just ran the same configuration you gave and got the following:

array
  'url' => string 'http://www.google.com' (length=21)
  'content_type' => string 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' (length=24)
  'http_code' => int 200
  'header_size' => int 2079
  'request_size' => int 151
  'filetime' => int -1
  'ssl_verify_result' => int 0
  'redirect_count' => int 0
  'total_time' => float 0.281
  'namelookup_time' => float 0
  'connect_time' => float 0
  'pretransfer_time' => float 0
  'size_upload' => float 0
  'size_download' => float 23168
  'speed_download' => float 82448
  'speed_upload' => float 0
  'download_content_length' => float -1
  'upload_content_length' => float 0
  'starttransfer_time' => float 0.187
  'redirect_time' => float 0
  'certinfo' => 
  array
    empty
  'redirect_url' => string '' (length=0)

My guess is that your server connection itself might be having bandwidth issues and/or being taxed somehow by another process.