Ticket #18738: 18738.patch

wp-includes/class-http.php

@@ -203 +203 @@
          * @return string|false Class name for the first transport that claims to support the request.  False if no transport claims to support the request.
          */
         public function _get_first_available_transport( $args, $url = null ) {
-                $request_order = array( 'curl', 'streams', 'fsockopen' );
 
+                if ( isset( $args['blocking'] ) and $args['blocking'] )
+                        $request_order = array( 'curl', 'streams', 'fsockopen' );
+                else
+                        $request_order = array( 'fsockopen', 'curl', 'streams' );
+
                 // Loop over each transport on each HTTP request looking for one which will serve this request's needs
                 foreach ( $request_order as $transport ) {
                         $class = 'WP_HTTP_' . $transport;
@@ -226 +230 @@
          * Also caches the transport instance to be used later.
          *
          * The order for blocking requests is cURL, Streams, and finally Fsockopen.
-         * The order for non-blocking requests is cURL, Streams and Fsockopen().
+         * The order for non-blocking requests is Fsockopen(), cURL and finally Streams.
          *
          * There are currently issues with "localhost" not resolving correctly with DNS. This may cause
          * an error "failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did