Ticket #8702: 8702.diff

Index: wp-includes/http.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/http.php        (revision 10238)
+++ wp-includes/http.php        (working copy)
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@
         * Tests all of the objects and returns the object that passes. Also caches
         * that object to be used later.
         *
-        * The order for the GET/HEAD requests are Streams, HTTP Extension, Fopen,
-        * and finally Fsockopen. fsockopen() is used last, because it has the most
-        * overhead in its implementation. There isn't any real way around it, since
-        * redirects have to be supported, much the same way the other transports
-        * also handle redirects.
+        * The order for the GET/HEAD requests are HTTP Extension, cURL, Streams, 
+        * Fopen, and finally Fsockopen. fsockopen() is used last, because it has 
+        * the most overhead in its implementation. There isn't any real way around 
+        * it, since redirects have to be supported, much the same way the other 
+        * transports also handle redirects.
         *
         * There are currently issues with "localhost" not resolving correctly with
         * DNS. This may cause an error "failed to open stream: A connection attempt
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@
         * to send content, but the streams transport can. This is a limitation that
         * is addressed here, by just not including that transport.
         *
+         * The order for the POST requests are HTTP Extension, cURL, Streams and 
+        * finally Fsockopen. fsockopen() is used last, because it has the most 
+        * overhead in its implementation. There isn't any real way around it, 
+        * since redirects have to be supported, much the same way the other 
+        * transports also handle redirects.
+        *
         * @since 2.7
         * @access private
         *
@@ -142,6 +148,9 @@
                        if ( true === WP_Http_ExtHttp::test() && apply_filters('use_http_extension_transport', true) ) {
                                $working_transport['exthttp'] = new WP_Http_ExtHttp();
                                $blocking_transport[] = &$working_transport['exthttp'];
+                       } else if ( true === WP_Http_Curl::test() && apply_filters('use_curl_transport', true) ) {
+                               $working_transport['curl'] = new WP_Http_Curl();
+                               $blocking_transport[] = &$working_transport['curl'];
                        } else if ( true === WP_Http_Streams::test() && apply_filters('use_streams_transport', true) ) {
                                $working_transport['streams'] = new WP_Http_Streams();
                                $blocking_transport[] = &$working_transport['streams'];
@@ -215,7 +224,7 @@
                        'timeout' => apply_filters( 'http_request_timeout', 5),
                        'redirection' => apply_filters( 'http_request_redirection_count', 5),
                        'httpversion' => apply_filters( 'http_request_version', '1.0'),
-                       'user-agent' => apply_filters( 'http_headers_useragent', 'WordPress/' . $wp_version ),
+                       'user-agent' => apply_filters( 'http_headers_useragent', 'WordPress/' . $wp_version . '; ' . get_bloginfo( 'url' ) ),
                        'blocking' => true,
                        'headers' => array(), 'body' => null
                );
@@ -769,7 +778,8 @@
                                'max_redirects' => $r['redirection'],
                                'protocol_version' => (float) $r['httpversion'],
                                'header' => $strHeaders,
-                               'timeout' => $r['timeout']
+                               'timeout' => $r['timeout'],
+                               'verify_peer' => false
                        )
                );
 
@@ -899,6 +909,7 @@
                        'redirect' => $r['redirection'],
                        'useragent' => $r['user-agent'],
                        'headers' => $r['headers'],
+                       'ssl' => array( 'verifypeer' => false, 'verifyhost' => false )
                );
 
                if ( !defined('WP_DEBUG') || ( defined('WP_DEBUG') && false === WP_DEBUG ) ) //Emits warning level notices for max redirects and timeouts
@@ -988,26 +999,31 @@
                        $r['timeout'] = 1;
 
                $handle = curl_init();
+
                curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
+               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false );
+               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );
+               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $r['user-agent'] );
+               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $r['timeout'] );
+               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $r['timeout'] );
+               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $r['redirection'] );
 
-               if ( 'HEAD' === $r['method'] ) {
-                       curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true );
+               switch ( $r['method'] ) {
+                       case 'HEAD':
+                               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true );
+                               break;
+                       case 'POST':
+                               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_POST, true );
+                               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $r['body'] );
+                               break;
                }
 
-               if ( true === $r['blocking'] ) {
+               if ( true === $r['blocking'] )
                        curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, true );
-                       curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
-               } else {
+               else
                        curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
-                       curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true );
-                       curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0 );
-               }
 
-               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $r['user-agent'] );
-               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1 );
-               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $r['timeout'] );
-               curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $r['redirection'] );
-
                if ( !ini_get('safe_mode') && !ini_get('open_basedir') )
                        curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );