Zend Gdata Library - Connection Timeout

Question

I am having a new problem with the Zend Gdata library where I am regularly receiving this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Gdata_App_HttpException' with message 'Unable to Connect to ssl://spreadsheets.google.com:443. Error #110: Connection timed out' 

I have not changed any of my code and I have been using the same code successfully for a long time now. What I find even stranger, is that if I take the code from my domain (www.mattblubaugh.com) and I copy it to one of my other domains (www.ryanemiller.com/external/mattblubaugh) I don't experience the timeout. In addition, the second domain is using the same Zend Gdata library to pull in most of its content. There is no problem there.

I have scoured Google and have come across a sparse number of people complaining about this problem, but most are from over a year ago.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

[edit 10:02pm]

I have tried the files locally via WAMP and have no problems. The problematic host is with inmotionhosting. Does anyone else have this host and have you experienced timeout problems recently?

Answer 1

This has since been resolved. It was a problem with my host provider, not my code.

Answer 2

We had the same problem for a few days. The actual problem was IPv6. The server resolved google.com to an IPv6 address first and tried to connect with that. This caused a time-out. I checked it by running telnet google.com 443, here you can see if it resolves to an IPv4 or IPV6 address. After I turned of the IPv6 lookup, the exception was gone.