Calls to findItemsByCategory API generate a connection refused error

[claonaite]

Hi,

  my site calls findItemsByCategory using PHP.  The call fails with "failed to connect to svcs.ebay.com port 80: connection refused". If I paste the URL into a web browser (I've tried Firefox and Chrome with the caches cleared) then I can see it returns results.  The PHP code has been working (unchanged) for months now and the last sucessful call was 4 hours and 53 minutes ago, so this is a new problem. 

Is anyone else seeing this, and does anyone have any ideas how to debug it?

Cheers

David

[claonaite]

Solved it.

[mara_industrial]

How did you solve this? I'm having the same issue.

[mara_industrial]

I also solved it - my endpoint was set to http, it needed to be updated to https. Endpoint at the time of this post should be: https://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1