[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36280: HTTP API (Streams backend) secured proxy tunnels and chunked and zlib on the fly streaming

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#36280: HTTP API (Streams backend) secured proxy tunnels and chunked and zlib on
the fly streaming
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 Reporter:  bobbywalters  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  HTTP API      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Requests is the work of @rmccue mostly and while it may seem like it's
 taken inspiration from WP_HTTP, it's not based on it, licensing and all :)

 I'm myself extremely hesitant to tell anyone to write new code for the
 WP_HTTP internals, as realistically I don't think we should continue
 working on it, It was once needed when the options were using cURL
 directly or `fsockopen()` but today we have the opportunity to instead
 leveraging a library which other applications also do, pushing changes
 upstream where needed, improving it for everyone.
 I don't think Requests supports what you want to do here yet, but I think
 it would be a far better place for the effort to be directed.

 I don't know when, or if, Requests will be switched in for WP_HTTP, we've
 talked about it for a long(ish) time.

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