Failed to connect to api.companieshouse.gov.uk port 80 after 95572 ms: Connection timed out

API Issues
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<?php
$URL="http://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/search/companies?q=Active&items_per_page=10&start_index=0";

$apikey = "My Key here";
$acceptTypes = [ "application/json" ]; // any types you support - not strictly necessary here
$headers = [ 'Accept:' . implode(', ', $acceptTypes) ];
$ch = curl_init();

//$headers = [ 'Accept:' . implode(', ', $acceptTypes) ];

curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_URL => $URL,
    // Our API key is the username - we need username:password
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => $apikey . ":",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $headers,
    // Make security explicit!
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => true, // default true per cURL 7.1
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2, // Should be the default e.g. secure.
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST=>"GET",
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION=>true,
    CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT=> 1, // capture the header info
    CURLOPT_VERBOSE=> 1, // turn verbose on
   
]);

$request = curl_exec($ch);
if (!curl_errno($ch)) {
    $http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
      $resp_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE);
    echo "http e code $http_code\n";
     echo "Respons e code $resp_code\n";
    $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
    echo "<pre>" . print_r($info, true) . "</pre>";
    //var_dump($request);
     $decodedResult = json_decode($request);
     echo "<pre>" . print_r($decodedResult, true) . "</pre>";
    
}
else {
    echo curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
?>

I keep getting Failed to connect to api.companieshouse.gov.uk port 80 after 95572 ms: Connection timed out. i am actually searching for Proposal to Strike Off

but if i change it $URL=“https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC301540”;

it works perfectly … any thing i am doing wrong ?