Using PHP/CURL with Cookies

I need to access a web page and pass a PHPSESSID from an existing session.

I have tried it two ways (see code).

Both of these work perfectly in their own script.  However when I put either of these code segments into my main page it dies.  Basicially with #1 using file_get_contents(), I get no error message, it just times out, and after 120 seconds the rest of the page loads.

With #2 CURL I get a CURL error 28, Operation timed out after 5 seconds with 0 bytes received.

I know for sure that the page loads as it loads when these snippits run by itself, as well as it runs when I go into the command line and open it with lynx and/or wget.

The main page seems valid, it works except for pulling in the string from the external page.  The main page is fairly complex in that it does have set a session, it uses a lot of javascript/AJAX type code, as well as PHP/DB type stuff as well.

I need this answered by tomorrow, or I'm going to have to start over from scratch with a different approach.

The solution needs to make this code work in my main page.

Please let me know if I can provide any other info.

Also this is being ran on a PHP5 based system running Red Hat/Apache/Plesk.  Open basedir is turned off, and allow_url_fopen is enabled.  Again the scripts above work in isolation, but not from within the main page.

Thanks in advance for any assistance

-----1----------
$phpsessionID	= 'ahnvr6hr1veh6rru4brjm3aj45' ;
$url		= 'http://website/directory/file.php?ID=XXXX&second=YYYY' ;
$opts = array(
		'http' => array(
			'method' => 'GET',
			'header' => 'Cookie: PHPSESSID='.$phpsessionID
		)
	);
$context	= stream_context_create($opts);
$string		= file_get_contents($url, 0, $context);
 
 
-------2-----------
$phpsessionID	= 'ahnvr6hr1veh6rru4brjm3aj45' ;
$url		= 'http://website/directory/file.php?ID=XXXX&second=YYYY' ;
 
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIE,'PHPSESSID='.$phpsessionID);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$outputA = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
 
$string	= $outputA ;

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