failed to open stream: Connection timed out error - Themoviedb - php

Question

I need some help with the movie db api. I constantly get a connection timed out error. Below is my code, I'm trying to just output the raw json respone so I can work my way from there.
$header_opt = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET",
'header'=>"Accept: application/json\r\n" .
"Content-Type: application/json\r\n"
)
);
$headers = stream_context_create($header_opt);
$rawjson = file_get_contents('http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/tt0076759?api_key=myapikey', false, $headers);
$cleansjon = json_decode($rawjson);
echo $cleansjon;
And this is the error I get.
Warning: filegetcontents(http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/tt0076759?api_key=myapikey) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /*///*/public_html/index.php on line 11
I hope that someone can help me with this.
Edit: Added HAR response
{
"log": {
"version": "1.2",
"creator": {
"name": "WebInspector",
"version": "537.20"
},
"pages": [
{
"startedDateTime": "2013-01-27T09:51:02.534Z",
"id": "page_1",
"title": "http://*MyWebsite*/tmdb.php",
"pageTimings": {
"onContentLoad": 60636,
"onLoad": 60635
}
}
],
"entries": [
{
"startedDateTime": "2013-01-27T09:51:02.534Z",
"time": 60197,
"request": {
"method": "GET",
"url": "http://*MyWebsite*/tmdb.php",
"httpVersion": "HTTP/1.1",
"headers": [
{
"name": "DNT",
"value": "1"
},
{
"name": "Accept-Encoding",
"value": "gzip,deflate,sdch"
},
{
"name": "Host",
"value": "*MyHost*"
},
{
"name": "Accept-Language",
"value": "nl-NL,nl;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4"
},
{
"name": "User-Agent",
"value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.20 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1328.0 Safari/537.20"
},
{
"name": "Accept",
"value": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"
},
{
"name": "Cache-Control",
"value": "max-age=0"
},
{
"name": "Connection",
"value": "keep-alive"
},
{
"name": "Accept-Charset",
"value": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3"
}
],
"queryString": [],
"cookies": [],
"headersSize": 443,
"bodySize": 0
},
"response": {
"status": 200,
"statusText": "OK",
"httpVersion": "HTTP/1.1",
"headers": [
{
"name": "Date",
"value": "Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:02 GMT"
},
{
"name": "Content-Encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"name": "Server",
"value": "Apache/2"
},
{
"name": "Vary",
"value": "Accept-Encoding,User-Agent"
},
{
"name": "Content-Type",
"value": "text/html"
},
{
"name": "Connection",
"value": "Keep-Alive"
},
{
"name": "Keep-Alive",
"value": "timeout=1, max=100"
},
{
"name": "Content-Length",
"value": "260"
}
],
"cookies": [],
"content": {
"size": 342,
"mimeType": "text/html",
"compression": 82
},
"redirectURL": "",
"headersSize": 234,
"bodySize": 260
},
"cache": {},
"timings": {
"blocked": 0,
"dns": 13,
"connect": 29,
"send": 0,
"wait": 60147,
"receive": 5,
"ssl": -1
},
"pageref": "page_1"
}
]
}
}

Answer 1

You can remove the Content-Type header, this would be required if you submit JSON using HTTP PUT or POST.
The error indicates, that file_get_contents does not get a response from the host api.themoviedb.org
I constantly get a connection timed out error.
Does constantly mean always or often?
If you see this frequently either your Internet uplink or the movie db server has a problem.

Answer 2

Maybe there is no problem at all. Your application is trying to connect to a server and gets a timeout error.