[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47957: Don't verify SSL certificate for loopback test

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#47957: Don't verify SSL certificate for loopback test
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 Reporter:  ocean90      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  5.3
Component:  Site Health  |     Version:  5.2
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Clorith):

 Hmm, we definitely need a more reliable solution overall. The reason the
 Site Health check does it this way is because it was copied from how the
 plugin/theme editors do them (this was the basis for creating the test, as
 a lot of users had issues saving after the changes to t hem were
 implemented, all due to loopback failures).

 There's now 3 places (likely to be more) that do loopbacks, so having a
 fixed loopback function is probably a more sustainable approach?

 I'm thinking along the lines of `function loopback( $target_url ) { return
 $WP_Http }` which all the places that do loopbacks can use, and by
 returning the WP_Http object those places can then check whatever they
 need, if that is the content body, headers etc.

 This would also be handy for #47954 which looks to do loopback calls to
 verify URLs are reachable before breaking a users access to their site.

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