From d9778f61f368f839182850e069222b1fc1decef2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: westi <westi@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:09:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure the curl transport supports HEAD requests. Merge from
 BackPress props sambauers.

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@10087 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/http.php | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/http.php b/wp-includes/http.php
index 3744cb3ffd..60c2e968a9 100644
--- a/wp-includes/http.php
+++ b/wp-includes/http.php
@@ -980,6 +980,10 @@ class WP_Http_Curl {
 		$handle = curl_init();
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 
+		if ( 'HEAD' === $r['method'] ) {
+			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true );
+		}
+
 		if ( true === $r['blocking'] ) {
 			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, true );
 			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
@@ -989,7 +993,6 @@ class WP_Http_Curl {
 			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0 );
 		}
 
-		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $r['user-agent'] );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1 );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $r['timeout'] );