Title: WP_HTTP_Fsockopen
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# class WP_HTTP_Fsockopen {}

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This class has been deprecated since 3.7.0. Use [WP_HTTP::request](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTTP/request/)
instead.

Deprecated HTTP Transport method which used fsockopen.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

This class is not used, and is included for backward compatibility only.
All code
should make use of [WP_Http](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http/)
directly through its API.

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [WP_HTTP::request](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTTP/request/)

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    class WP_HTTP_Fsockopen extends WP_Http_Streams {
    	// For backward compatibility for users who are using the class directly.
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php#L530)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php#L530-L532)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [WP_Http_Streams](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_streams/)`wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php` |

Core class used to integrate PHP Streams as an HTTP transport.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_fsockopen/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.7.0/) | Deprecated. Please use [WP_HTTP::request()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http/request/) directly | 
| [2.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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