cURL call to web service not working - php

Question

I am trying to make a simple get call to a .NET RESTful web service at https://salesgenie.com/brandingservice/details?url=att.salesgenie.com The test page making the cURL call is at https://test-cms.salesgenie.com/wp-content/themes/salesgenie/branding-proxy.php The web service can be called in the browser but is timing out when called via cURL. Here is the code from the branding-proxy.php page:
if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
die('Sorry cURL is not installed!');
}
$url = 'https://salesgenie.com/brandingservice/details?url=att.salesgenie.com';
$handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);
$response = curl_exec($handle);
$code = curl_getinfo($handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($handle);
setcookie('CmsCookie', $code . ' ' . $response, 0, '/', 'salesgenie.com', 0);
echo 'Code:' . $code."<br />Response: ".$response;

Answer 1

I can see that the timeout happens while using your links, though I think the problem happens somewhere else. The reason I've come to that conclusion is that I uploaded your code to my own website. It worked fine.
Important
If you are the owner of salesgenie.com then I think you have a problem with the server, since sometimes the responses I got was either a timeout (code 0), code 200 (with result) or code 320. So the problem might be a problem within the server itself.
Tricks
Try removing the setcookie to spare some processing.
Also try using http instead of https since https requires some more processing to use.