Akismet and persistent connections
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:10 - Daniel - Blogs - Comments (0)
The delays that sometimes occurred when submitting comments are apparently caused by an incorrect implementation of an HTTP/1.1 socket in the Aksimet PHP5 class.
The class didn't send a Connection: Close header to the Akismet server. The Server was keeping the connection open and delayed future request. By either switching to HTTP/1.0 (doesn't support persistent connections) or sending a Connection: Close header that problem is solved.
This also affected my Akismet plugin for yabs. There is already a updated version online, just override the old files and upgrade in the admin panel.
Akismet 1.0.2
Thanks to Jan who found this problem.
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