[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #9998: cURL DNS Lookup timeout; Plugin and Update Download Fail

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#9998: cURL DNS Lookup timeout; Plugin and Update Download Fail
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 Reporter:  carltonbale   |       Owner:  dd32                                                         
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                                                          
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Unassigned                                                   
Component:  HTTP          |     Version:  2.7.1                                                        
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  cURL, dns lookup, plugin download fail, "name lookup timeout"
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Comment(by jacobsantos):

 I'm contemplating writing patch that allows for disabling the transports
 from inside WordPress. The goal was to allow "easy" disabling of the
 transports, but no one really wants to seem to write the plugin
 themselves.

 DD32's plugin kicks major ass, but I think it might be cleaner just to
 include that piece (albeit, not disabling the last one, whatever it may
 be).

 The reason I don't like fsockopen to be used, is that there is a great
 deal more overhead, since a lot of what is implemented by the other
 transports internally had to be implemented in user land. This is going to
 be inherently slower than those transports that do it in C PHP extension.

 Well, it seems that doesn't prevent bugs from being in the other
 extensions.

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