title: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Error Fetching http headers
body: <p>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. </p>
  
  <pre><code>$proxy = new SoapClient('someaddress?wsdl');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The error is </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;b&gt;Fatal error&lt;/b&gt;:  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-&amp;gt;__doRequest('&amp;lt;?xml version=&amp;quot;...',    'http://cornishw...', 'urn:Mage_Api_Mo...', 1, 0)
  [internal function]: SoapClient-&amp;gt;__call('call', Array)
  /home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/views/contentpage_templates/gift_service.php(29): SoapClient-&amp;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-&amp;gt;_ci_load(Array, '')
  /home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/modules/contentpage/controllers/contentpage.php(44): MY_Loader-&amp;gt;view('contentpage_tem...', false, true)
  [internal function]: Contentpage-&amp;gt;index()
  /home/sites/xxx in &lt;b&gt;/home/sites/xxx/xxx_main/system/application/views/contentpage_templates/gift_service.php&lt;/b&gt; on line &lt;b&gt;29&lt;/b&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>