CFHTTP timing out

I am trying to figure out why

a cfhttp call that we have been making for years is all of a sudden timing out no matter how long I set the requesttimeout for. The url we are going to works fine.  In fact pasted in a browser the URL take barely 1 sec to return the data to the screen.  However placed in a cfhttp tag I can't get the data to return.  The data is a comma delimeted list that has about 500 records (nothing huge).

I did a dump of CFHTTP and this is what was returned:

struct

Charset[empty string]

ErrorDetailConnect Exception: Connection timed out

FilecontentConnection Failure

Header[undefined struct element]

MimetypeUnable to determine MIME type of file.

Responseheader

StatuscodeConnection Failure. Status code unavailable.

TextYES

In the exceptions I get this error:  07:11:12.012 - java.lang.NullPointerException - in C:\blackstone_updates\cfusion\wwwroot\WEB-INF\cftags\dump.cfm : line 879

Here is my http tag:

<cfhttp url = "https://servername/filename.pl"
   method = "get"
   name="getcsv"
   columns="field1,field2,field3"
   FIRSTROWASHEADERS="no">