Index: wp-includes/functions.php
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--- wp-includes/functions.php	(revision 19623)
+++ wp-includes/functions.php	(working copy)
@@ -2670,41 +2670,6 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * Determines if the blog can be accessed over SSL.
- *
- * Determines if blog can be accessed over SSL by using cURL to access the site
- * using the https in the siteurl. Requires cURL extension to work correctly.
- *
- * @since 2.5.0
- *
- * @param string $url
- * @return bool Whether SSL access is available
- */
-function url_is_accessable_via_ssl($url)
-{
-	if (in_array('curl', get_loaded_extensions())) {
-		$ssl = preg_replace( '/^http:\/\//', 'https://',  $url );
-
-		$ch = curl_init();
-		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ssl);
-		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
-		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
-		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
-
-		curl_exec($ch);
-
-		$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
-		curl_close ($ch);
-
-		if ($status == 200 || $status == 401) {
-			return true;
-		}
-	}
-	return false;
-}
-
-/**
  * Marks a function as deprecated and informs when it has been used.
  *
  * There is a hook deprecated_function_run that will be called that can be used
Index: wp-includes/deprecated.php
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--- wp-includes/deprecated.php	(revision 19623)
+++ wp-includes/deprecated.php	(working copy)
@@ -2866,3 +2866,32 @@
 
 	return is_user_member_of_blog( get_current_user_id(), $blog_id );
 }
+
+/**
+ * Determines if the blog can be accessed over SSL.
+ *
+ * Determines if blog can be accessed over SSL by using cURL to access the site
+ * using the https in the siteurl. Requires cURL extension to work correctly.
+ *
+ * @since 2.5.0
+ * @deprecated 3.3
+ *
+ * @param string $url
+ * @return bool Whether SSL access is available
+ */
+function url_is_accessable_via_ssl($url)
+{
+	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.3', '' );
+	$ssl = preg_replace( '/^http:\/\//', 'https://',  $url );
+
+	$response = wp_remote_get( $ssl );
+
+	if( !is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
+		$status = $response['response']['code'];
+		if ($status == 200 || $status == 401) {
+			return true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}