curl timeout

does the request work outside laravel project even if you dont edit /etc/hosts? if not, the problem is probably in the DNS resolution. if it does, why do you need to edit the hosts file?

the request destination is some outside web or you request your local project? if local project, how do you serve it? apache/nginx or php arstisan serve? if the latter, try reading this: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/not-able-to-get-response-from-get-api-in-laravel

The location of the request is the external Internet

private function executeREST($method, $params)
{
    $queryUrl = 'h ttp s://si te. co m/rest/84733/'.env('CURL_KEY').'/' . $method . '.json';
    $queryData = http_build_query($params);

    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => 0,
        CURLOPT_POST => 1,
        CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
        CURLOPT_URL => $queryUrl,
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $queryData,
    ));

    $result = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);

    return json_decode($result, true);
}

here is my code, when it is executed, sending takes a long time and at the end it produces null. maybe there are some errors there, but I don't have an error handler

the spaces in the URL is a mistake or just just a typo? 'h ttp s://si te. co m/rest/84733/'.env('CURL_KEY').'/' . $method . '.json';

try to dump that string in your code and see what you get

$queryUrl = 'h ttp s://si te. co m/rest/84733/'.env('CURL_KEY').'/' . $method . '.json'; //typos or not, just use the line from your actual code
dd($queryUrl);

is the URL correct? does the CURL_KEY and $method replace ok?

There was a problem with the firewall on the recipient side.

Thanks for the help