[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34935: Removed SSL certificates causing errors in WP 4.4

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#34935: Removed SSL certificates causing errors in WP 4.4
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 Reporter:  DvanKooten                     |       Owner:  rmccue
     Type:  defect (bug)                   |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                         |   Milestone:  4.4.1
Component:  HTTP API                       |     Version:  4.4
 Severity:  normal                         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing https  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by javorszky):

 Replying to [comment:17 toddlahman]:
 > Adding automated testing of different versions of cURL and OpenSSL with
 WordPress using HTTPS to connect to remote URLs, like an API, would help
 avoid these issues in the next release. Using the test results to allow
 WordPress to detect incompatible versions of cURL and OpenSSL on the
 server, and warn the WordPress admin to have their host update cURL or
 OpenSSL, would provide admins actionable feedback, so they can solve their
 own issue, even if the ca-bundle.crt isn't perfect.

 Following feedback from users who had this problem and we asked them to
 update openssl and / or curl, they came back with that being fairly hard,
 as they're part of the server distribution they used.

 One of them provided feedback from the host: they updated to 1.0.2, but
 php did not pick that change up. It's a lot easier to bundle a working ca-
 bundle.crt than asking hosts to update their openssl.

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