[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33055: Support Parallel HTTP Requests in WP_Http, et al

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#33055: Support Parallel HTTP Requests in WP_Http, et al
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 Reporter:  wonderboymusic              |       Owner:  rmccue
     Type:  task (blessed)              |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  high                        |   Milestone:  4.6
Component:  HTTP API                    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch needs-dev-note  |     Focuses:  performance
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Comment (by Otto42):

 There seems to be a rather large number of issues with this change,
 overall. Backwards compat breaks, cron going haywire, curl
 incompatibilities.

 If this were any other change, then it would not seem to be ready for
 inclusion in a major release, is what I'm getting at. I get that it is a
 better library, but leaving this in core when it's causing so many
 problems seems something like favoritism here.

 These issues need to be addressed. Backwards compatibility, especially on
 publicly documented functions and not internal-only calls, needs to be
 maintained. Behaviors like curl timeouts need to be maintained.

 Making a library to replace the old HTTP calls, but which also straight up
 breaks nearly every plugin that actually uses those calls, doesn't seem
 like a good candidate for core inclusion.

 Why is this still in trunk and not reverted already? It has already broken
 major parts of WordPress.org.

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