php - Uncaught SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Error Fetching http headers

Question

I'm trying to create a soap connection to Magento's web services, however I'm getting an error when I try and create an instance of the soap client class. I can view the wsdl file in firefox without problems and I can watch php make the request for the wsdl in apaches logs but it still fails. Nusoap can connect.

$proxy = new SoapClient('someaddress?wsdl');

The error is

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Error Fetching http headers in /home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/views/contentpage_templates/gift_service.php:29
Stack trace:
[internal function]: SoapClient-&gt;__doRequest('&lt;?xml version=&quot;...',    'http://cornishw...', 'urn:Mage_Api_Mo...', 1, 0)
[internal function]: SoapClient-&gt;__call('call', Array)
/home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/views/contentpage_templates/gift_service.php(29): SoapClient-&gt;call(NULL, 'catalog_categor...', 5, 'giftshop')
/home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/libraries/MY_Loader.php(586): include('/home/sites/cor...')
/home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/libraries/MY_Loader.php(228): MY_Loader-&gt;_ci_load(Array, '')
/home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/modules/contentpage/controllers/contentpage.php(44): MY_Loader-&gt;view('contentpage_tem...', false, true)
[internal function]: Contentpage-&gt;index()
/home/sites/xxx in <b>/home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/views/contentpage_templates/gift_service.php</b> on line <b>29</b>

Thanks

Answer 1

Try to set :

default_socket_timeout = 120

in your php.ini file.