CURL broken in CentOS 7 / RHEL7 for past year

If you suspected maybe WordPress and other PHP apps were slower to ping/trackback sites and other fetches under CentOS 7 than CentOS 6, you aren’t imagining things.

Apparently libCurl (and therefore Curl in PHP) has been broken for over a year now without RedHat applying the available patch and pushing an update.

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8076

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130239

patch: https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/d529f388 (note July 2013)

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August 26, 2015 | Categories: linux, PHP | Tags: centos7, curl, libcurl, rhel7 | 3 Comments