My Laravel application is working in docker with the default sail configuration.

I’m trying to access a route of my API in my API and i’m getting an error. It’s seems like Laravel can’t call itself.

The code :

    @php    
        $defaultProductImageBase64 = base64_encode(file_get_contents("http://api.localhost/images/savors/default-product.png"));
    @endphp

The error :

file_get_contents(http://api.localhost/images/savors/default-product.png): Failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

I tried to use the container name instead of the “api.localhost” but I always get the same error. I also tried “host.docker.internal”.

Informations:

• The URL is working in my browser.
• The file_get_contents works with a URL of another website.
• A docker exec of curl in the container work with the url “http://CONTAINER_NAME” and “http://host.docker.internal