Facebook API Error: connect() timed out! [SOLVED]

That's a new one to us. We'll agree, it seems as though you can't connect to Facebook itself, which is obviously strange. We're not seeing that on any of our development systems, so it doesn't appear to be an outage with Facebook Connect, which does happen (though rarely).

If you have SSH access to your server, can you try typing the following commands, and let us know what you get? You should see something similar to what's posted below. This verifies that your server can 'see' Facebook. If you don't have access, you may need to contact your hosting provider to see if there's any reason your site can't access these addresses.

Command:This verifies that your site can lookup the actual IP address of the Facebook API site. Should see something like:
Command:This verifies that you can send and receive from that address. If this fails, would indicate a firewall or other security mechanism preventing communication. Should see (Press cntrl-C to stop the 'ping'):
There are other possibilities regarding server/site configuration issues, but that error seems to indicate everything's good on your site's end... but when the request goes out to Facebook, it's just going to a black hole...

Let us know if this helps, or is way over your head. Unfortunately, the next step would likely be to contact your hosting provider.

Thanks!

All requests are made using cURL, which means they act like 'normal' http traffic. The 4 URLs that are used for different data from Facebook are:
api.facebook.com/
api-read.facebook.com/
graph.facebook.com/
www.facebook.com/

So, the things to check are that:
* These 4 addresses can be accessed over SSL (port 443)
* Your cURL library has SSL support installed (This can be found in Help->System Info / PHP Information). Look for something like:
I'm not too worried about the 2nd item, as that throws a different error.. but worth checking.

Let us know what you find!

That's awesome to hear. Glad we helped fix you up, and now we know what the problem is if we ever see it again. Thanks for letting us know you got it going!

If you have any other questions or issues, you know where to find us.

Your cURL setup seems correct. The ports you'd want to open are the outgoing ports, since you'll be connecting to those addresses. Facebook does not need to initiate communication back (incoming) to you over SSL, so you don't need a certificate and shouldn't need those ports open.

Please let us know if this helps. Obviously, feel free to try opening the incoming port as well (generally, this is open anyways so if someone mis-types https to your site, it will still go 'somewhere').

Thanks!