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I turned on debug mode in WordPress and the first request of the day I get this error:

Warning: http_request() [function.http-request]: Timeout was reached; Operation timed out after 1000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received (/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron) in /public/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1218

I know what cron jobs are and I understand how WordPress might want to run periodic jobs (and since HTTP is stateless, running a "cron" job on the first request of the day makes sense) but why does it time out?

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  • My first guess would be to check to make sure wp-cron.php is on your server. Every time I upload WordPress, it times out in the transfer and I have to copy it over manually ...
    – EAMann
    Commented Aug 13, 2010 at 15:01
  • Where are you hosting? Sometimes hosts turn off HTTP callbacks.
    – MikeSchinkel
    Commented Aug 13, 2010 at 16:38
  • It looks like wp-cron.php is in the root and I'd rather not say who the host is! I'll look though the faq and see if there is anything in there about HTTP callbacks.
    – tooshel
    Commented Aug 13, 2010 at 23:33
  • There was nothing about HTTP callbacks (or wp-cron.php) in the faq just info about how they don't support cron jobs (which is why something like this exists in PHP, right?)
    – tooshel
    Commented Aug 13, 2010 at 23:39

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It's a bug: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11831

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  • Lots of discussion on that link but it does describe the problem. Thanks!
    – tooshel
    Commented Aug 22, 2010 at 20:53
  • I just ran into this same problem and found your answer. Thanks! @holizz.
    – MikeSchinkel
    Commented Aug 27, 2010 at 5:16
  • For me it helps to repeat the request by clicking refresh. I only get the error message from time to time in my development environment.
    – hakre
    Commented Sep 8, 2010 at 18:40
  • @hakre: Once wp-cron has been requested, it isn't requested again for a certain period of time. Therefore, when you see the warning, you won't see it again for a short while. Also, the request frequently succeeds and thus doesn't cause a warning. Those two factors combine to make it only happen once in a while.
    – user202
    Commented Sep 8, 2010 at 22:03

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