title: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://...' in Google App Engine PHP App
body: <p>I am trying to connect to Amazon Web Services from my GAE account using a simple PHP script. However, the very first line is throwing an error:</p>
  
  <p>$wsdlURI = '<a href="http://www.webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/AWSECommerceService.wsdl" rel="nofollow">http://www.webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/AWSECommerceService.wsdl</a>';
  $soapClient = new SoapClient($wsdlURI);</p>
  
  <p>I get this error:
  SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://.....'failed to load external entity </p>
  
  <p>When I do a simple file_get_contents on the above URL, it works just fine. Only the SoapClient is not able to get the handle on the wsdl file....and ONLY GAE seems to have this problem. I tried the same code on another server and everything works fine. </p>
  
  <p>Is there any setting in GAE that I am missing??</p>