[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18738: Improving cron spawning and other non-blocking HTTP requests

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#18738: Improving cron spawning and other non-blocking HTTP requests
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 Reporter:  johnbillion           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:  5.1
Component:  HTTP API              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch wpcom-hack  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by pento):

 I'm not wild about adding a new constant for this, I'd be fine with just
 calling it as in [attachment:"wp_cron-fastcgi_finish.diff"].

 As @jnylen0 discovered, calling `ignore_user_abort( true )` will fix the
 problem with output flushing causing the script to exit.

 Also, as this will [https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67583 throw an error]
 on [https://github.com/php/php-
 src/commit/a46bbdda2e082070bd67ecdc500d9671bf1ab823 PHP < 7.0.16], I'm
 also fine with restricting it to newer PHP versions.

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