[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10522: timeout for ftp connections as a constant in config.php

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#10522: timeout for ftp connections as a constant in config.php
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 Reporter:  ntm          |       Owner:                                         
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                                    
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.8.3                                  
Component:  General      |     Version:  2.8.2                                  
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  ftp connection timeout, plugin upgrade,
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 In the last, I had have some problems with the automatic plugin upgrade.
 Every I startet the upgrade I have got an error message told me the I had
 entered a wrong password. But I was very sure that I had used the right
 one.

 While reading in the wordpress.org forums I discovered that it could have
 something to do with the file "/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-
 ftpext.php". And after some testing I could narrow the problem down to the
 timeout for the PHP function [http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-
 connect.php ftp_connect] in line 19 of the file class-wp-filesystem-
 ftpext.php. There the timeout = 5 and that is insufficiently at my hosting
 provider. (A friend of mine has a weblog at a server of the same hosting
 provider and has experienced the same problems.)

 I can imagine that this 5 seconds value is for a reason so small. But for
 some cases it would be great to be able to change that value easily and
 that is why i have made two little patches for
 /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php and /wp-
 admin/includes/file.php whose make it possible to change the value via the
 config.php file like all the other ftp credentials.

 I have no overview of all the WordPress core functions and files, so it
 might be necessary to make some further changes to this build in.

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