curl error 28 for composer update/install laravel

Stefan Bogdanescu

Founder & Senior Architect · 2026-06-29

Laravel Company
# Conquering `curl error 28`: A Senior Developer's Guide to Composer Failures in Laravel Projects As developers, we often find ourselves hitting frustrating roadblocks when setting up new projects or updating dependencies. One of the most common and maddening errors encountered during this process is `curl error 28`. This error, which usually manifests as an operation timeout, stops Composer from successfully downloading packages from repositories like Packagist or GitHub. If you are working on a Laravel project and encounter this issue while running `composer update` or `composer install`, you are not