CURL hangs on request, waits for timeout

I am facing a problem that I cannot find a solution to anywhere. Worse, others don't have this problem, so I'm probably doing something very stupid.

Some background information. I am trying to create a proxy like page that redirects an AJAX request to another server. This will bypass the single domain policy. All I want this code to do is take the POST variables, post them to another page, and then return the results. It works, but for 1 thing: every time it waits for the timeout to continue. I put it on for 1 second, so it works fine now, but I would have preferred a quick response and correct timeout.

Here's my code:

// create a new cURL resource
$call = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($call, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($call, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($call, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
curl_setopt($call, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($call, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($call, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$response = curl_exec($call);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($call);

echo $response;

      

        
        
        
      

    

I tried to send the header "Connection: close" with it and several ways to make the target code specified in it (setting Content-length, flushing, die (), etc.). At this point I really don't know what's going on, what surprises me the most is that I can't find anyone with a similar problem.

Who can help me?