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wp_http_supports( array $capabilities = array(), string $url = null ): bool

Since
3.2.0
Source
wp-includes/http.php:398
Determines if there is an HTTP Transport that can process this request.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 3.2.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$capabilitiesarrayoptional
Array of capabilities to test or a wp_remote_request() $args array.Default: array()
$urlstringoptional
If given, will check if the URL requires SSL and adds that requirement to the capabilities array.Default: null

Return value

bool

Performance profile

How much work a call to wp_http_supports() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Trivial

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
13–49

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 49.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
14

14 places in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What one call costs · 6 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost wp_http_supports() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!$capabilities13–15wp_parse_args(), ::WpOrg\\Requests\\Requests()
$capabilities && $count !== false23–25wp_parse_args(), array_keys(), array_filter(), ::WpOrg\\Requests\\Requests()
!$capabilities && !isset($capabilities)24–26wp_parse_args(), parse_url(), ::WpOrg\\Requests\\Requests()
$capabilities && $count !== false && !isset($capabilities)34–36wp_parse_args(), array_keys(), array_filter(), parse_url(), ::WpOrg\\Requests\\Requests()
$capabilities && $count === false36–38wp_parse_args(), array_keys(), array_filter(), array_values(), array_fill(), array_combine(), ::WpOrg\\Requests\\Requests()
$capabilities && $count === false && !isset($capabilities)47–49wp_parse_args(), array_keys(), array_filter(), array_values(), array_fill(), array_combine(), parse_url(), ::WpOrg\\Requests\\Requests()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 49 instructions, 13–49 executed per call, 6 branches. The work does not change between versions.

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Uses · 2

  • wp_parse_args()Merges user defined arguments into defaults array.
  • \WpOrg\Requests\Requests::has_capabilities()

Used by · 14

Show all 14
  • wp_update_themes()Checks for available updates to themes based on the latest versions hosted on WordPress.org.
  • wp_version_check()Checks WordPress version against the newest version.

Source code

function wp_http_supports( $capabilities = array(), $url = null ) {	$capabilities = wp_parse_args( $capabilities ); 	$count = count( $capabilities ); 	// If we have a numeric $capabilities array, spoof a wp_remote_request() associative $args array.	if ( $count && count( array_filter( array_keys( $capabilities ), 'is_numeric' ) ) === $count ) {		$capabilities = array_combine( array_values( $capabilities ), array_fill( 0, $count, true ) );	} 	if ( $url && ! isset( $capabilities['ssl'] ) ) {		$scheme = parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_SCHEME );		if ( 'https' === $scheme || 'ssl' === $scheme ) {			$capabilities['ssl'] = true;		}	} 	return WpOrg\Requests\Requests::has_capabilities( $capabilities );}

Changelog

Introduced in 3.2.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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