[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17238: Parallel HTTP Requests

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#17238: Parallel HTTP Requests
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 Reporter:  sterlo           |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  HTTP             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:                   |
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Changes (by dd32):

 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 non-blocking requests allow the request to be made, however no output from
 the server is captured.

 The HTTP Extension can be useful (pecl http) however was just removed from
 core due to it's lack of functionality offered over that of cURL. cURL
 itself can handle multiple requests (which is where pecl http gets it's
 functionality from) but that isnt exposed in WP_HTTP

 The main thing which prevents this being implemented on Streams and
 Fsockopen is that PHP is single-threaded (Sure, there are extensions for
 that, but lets not go there) resulting in functions for the http class
 having to be called regularly to check for output.

 I'm not sure of your use-case here, but due to the above reasons, I'd not
 suggest it be added to core, and would've closed this ticket as wontfix
 myself. I would probably suggest using WordPress's cron system and firing
 off the http requests in their own WordPress instance/thread

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