[wp-testers] Suggestion to fix : Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30 seconds.

[Peter Westwood]

On 22 Feb 2009, at 12:01, Felix Ker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I refer to the problem ( (Download failed.: Operation timed out after
> 3000 milli seconds. ...) I always got while trying to upgrade my
> Wordpress plugins or from 2.7 to 2.7.1. Oh, my hosting svr is located
> in Singapore. I'm suggesting that there be a setting for users that
> allows changing of this setting in Wordpress under settings. It can be
> quite irritating that for every site I have, I modify the value and
> after every upgrade, I modify it again.


The 30 second time out is filterable.

You should be able to use the 'http_request_args' filter which is  
called in the WP_Http object request function to change the timeout.

It is called like this: $r = apply_filters( 'http_request_args', $r,  
$url );

$r['timeout] will contain the timeout if one has been specified by any  
caller of the HTTP API and you can change it as you wish without  
editing core files.

(The default value if not supplied by a caller is 5 seconds and can be  
filtered using the http_request_timeout filter in the same function).

Something like the following in a plugin should help you:

function filter_timeout($r)
{
	if (30 == $r['timeout'])
		$r['timeout'] = 100;
	return ($r);
}

add_filter('http_request_args',''filter_timeout')

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