GuzzleHttp Hangs When Using Localhost

I was having the same issue. I got around it by defining base_uri as below.

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client([
    'base_uri' => 'http://localhost:8000',
    'defaults' => [
        'exceptions' => false
    ]
]);

$response = $client->get('/api/user/1');

Finally resolved it. Guzzle (or CURL to be specific) is denying the requests if you're running from non-standard ports.

Also, this appears to be random, sometime it works, sometime it doesn't. I moved to port 80 and Voila everything worked.

The issue is when using php artisan serve, it uses a PHP server which is single-threaded.

The web server runs only one single-threaded process, so PHP applications will stall if a request is blocked.

You can do this solution:

When making calls to itself the thread blocked waiting for its own reply. The solution is to either seperate the providing application and consuming application into their own instance or to run it on a multi-threaded webserver such as Apache or nginx.

Or if you are looking for a quick fix to test your updates - you can get this done by opening up two command prompts. The first would be running php artisan serve (locally my default port is 8000 and you would be running your site on http://localhost:8000). The second would run php artisan serve --port 8001.

Then you would update your post request to:

$request = $httpClient->request('GET', 'http://localhost:8001/BlogApiV1/BlogApi/blogs/', $headers);

This should help during your testing until you are able to put everything on server or a local virtual host.