Simplepie has force_fsockopen but the WP File Class does not respect it or have a way to respect it

[sivel]

Simplepie has the ability to allow a user to force the use of fsockopen. The WP File class passed to Simplepie does not respect this or have a way to respect this. I have opened a ticket #10416 which deals with allowing the ability to set a specific transport to be used. Perhaps we could use the functionality proposed in that ticket to respect force_fsockopen in simplepie. Another thought is to add the transport to use the the args list passed to the http api functions.

[sivel]

Just to cross reference 2 other tickets:
#10416
#10417

[dd32]

IMO we shouldnt respect the simplepie request anyway.

SimplePie includes only.. 2 methods and little detection routines from memory, the force makes sense in that scenario.

It doesnt make sense in WordPress however..