I have never used cURL before and have hit a roadblock in my learning. I am trying to make a HTTP GET request to my Wowza server which uses the Rest API to return JSON results. I have authentication set to none on the server at the moment until I can get the script working. I have tested the code below with an external website and it works but, when I try to use it with the URL from the server with the Rest API it just times out. I can make the request in a browser fine, just not from the code. What am I missing or not doing correctly? $ch = curl_init("http://IP_TO_SERVER:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/live/instances/_definst_/incomingstreams/ncopeland"); // such as http://example.com/example.xml curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print $data; The response should be this. { "serverName": "_defaultServer_", "sourceIp": "ncopeland", "isPTZEnabled": false, "applicationInstance": "_definst_", "name": "ncopeland", "isRecordingSet": false, "isStreamManagerStream": true, "isPublishedToVOD": false, "isConnected": true, "ptzPollingInterval": 2000 } -Thanks!

Here is the final result. Thanks to everyone who contributed their time and skills in helping me with this in my learning process. Now on to trying to take these variables to update the DB. If there is no further objections or suggestions here is the final code. $headers[] = 'Connection: Keep-Alive'; $headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8'; $headers[] = 'Accept: application/json'; $userAgent = 'php'; $url = 'http://domain.com:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/live/instances/_definst_/incomingstreams/ncopeland'; $cURL = curl_init(); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true); $result = curl_exec($cURL); curl_close($cURL); // Lets get and parse the data and create the variables $obj = json_decode($result); $chaser = $obj->name; $streamStatus = $obj->isConnected?'true':'false';