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Part of wp-cli/extension-command#555.

The upgrader downloads each package through the WordPress HTTP API one after the other, and this class already answers those downloads from disk when the file is cached. prefetch() fills the cache ahead of a bulk run: whitelisted URLs that are not yet cached are fetched side by side with Requests::request_multiple(), validated with the existing validate_downloaded_file() check, and imported. Anything that fails is left uncached so the upgrader's own download still runs for it.

Behavior:

  • Skips entirely when the cache is disabled, when fewer than two URLs are pending (nothing to overlap), or when WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL / WP_PROXY_HOST is set, because those are applied by the WordPress HTTP API and this method does not go through it. For the same reason WordPress's http_request_args / pre_http_request filters are not applied: a package that depends on them fails validation and is downloaded by the upgrader as before (noted in the docblock).
  • Goes through the http_request_options hook per URL, so a transport supplied there is honored. Requests reads the transport from the batch options, not from a request's own, so it is lifted out. The test suite's HTTP mock throws in request_multiple(); the method catches and the serial path runs.
  • Sends the WordPress user agent when WordPress is loaded, the WP-CLI one otherwise; verifies TLS with curl.cainfo when set, like Utils\http_request().
  • Logs Downloading N packages... once, plus per-URL debug lines under the http group and a summary (Prefetched X of N packages in Ys).
  • Temp files are removed in every path.

validate_downloaded_file() (from #6149) now uses Utils\parse_url() like the rest of the class, so it also works when WordPress is not loaded (that is what lets it be unit tested).

Tests: tests/WpHttpCacheManagerPrefetchTest.php (8 tests, 28 assertions, no network) with a canned-response transport in tests/includes/prefetch-requests-transport.php and an add_filter() stub in tests/includes/wp-filter-stub.php (the class registers WordPress filters on construction). Covers: not whitelisted, already cached, a single pending URL (and that nothing is logged), valid downloads cached, concurrency chunking, invalid bodies rejected, transport failure survived, cache disabled. The http_request_options hook the test adds only hands out the canned transport while one of these tests runs, and the runner config it replaces is restored on tear down. composer phpunit: 593 tests green; composer phpcs clean on the changed files; composer phpstan reports nothing new against main (the test uses the same guarded setAccessible() ignore idiom as tests/LoggingTest.php).

Measurements are in the linked issue: an 11-plugin wp plugin update --all goes from 22.5s to 12s on a slow connection and from 12.1s to 8.5s on a fast one; on a very fast one the download phase drops from 1.7s to 0.6s, which is about a second of wall time; warm cache unchanged.

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  • New Features

    • Eligible package downloads can be prefetched concurrently.
    • Successfully downloaded and validated packages are added to the cache before installation.
    • Temporary files are cleaned up automatically after prefetching.
    • Prefetching safely skips unavailable cache locations and empty download batches.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Ineligible, already-cached, failed, or invalid downloads continue through the standard download process.
    • Downloads using incompatible request settings are deferred to the standard process.
    • Improved handling of transport failures and cleanup when errors occur.

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The upgrader downloads each package through the WordPress HTTP API one
after the other, and the cache manager answers those downloads from
disk when the file is already cached. prefetch() fills the cache ahead
of a bulk run: whitelisted URLs that are not yet cached are fetched
side by side with Requests::request_multiple(), validated with the
existing download check, and imported. Anything that fails is left
uncached so the upgrader's own download still runs for it.

The method goes through the http_request_options hook so a transport
supplied there (the test suite's HTTP mock) is honored, and it skips
entirely when the cache is disabled or when WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL or
WP_PROXY_HOST is set, since those are applied by the WordPress HTTP
API which this method does not use.

validate_downloaded_file() now uses Utils\parse_url() like the rest of
the class, so it also works when WordPress is not loaded.
The docblock now says that WordPress's http_request_args and
pre_http_request filters are not applied by prefetch(), so a package
that depends on them (an authorization header, for example) fails
validation and is downloaded by the upgrader as before.

The test's http_request_options hook cannot be removed once added, so
it now hands out the canned transport only while one of these tests is
running, and the runner config it replaces is restored on tear down the
way LoggingTest does. The single-URL test also checks that nothing is
logged.
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The cache manager now prefetches eligible package URLs in concurrent batches, handles transport differences and failures, validates downloads, imports valid files, and removes temporary files. New tests cover these behaviors.

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Package prefetching

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Prefetch implementation
php/WP_CLI/WpHttpCacheManager.php
Checks writable temporary storage, builds request options through prefetch_request_options(), batches compatible transports, validates downloads, imports valid files, logs successful downloads, and removes temporary files in finally.
Prefetch validation and test support
tests/WpHttpCacheManagerPrefetchTest.php, tests/includes/prefetch-requests-transport.php, tests/includes/wp-filter-stub.php
Adds tests and test doubles for URL filtering, cache state, batching, transport mismatches, invalid downloads, transport failures, exceptions, disabled caching, logging, and temporary-file cleanup.

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  participant WpHttpCacheManager
  participant RequestsTransport
  participant FileCache
  WpHttpCacheManager->>WpHttpCacheManager: Build eligible request options
  WpHttpCacheManager->>RequestsTransport: Download URLs in batches
  RequestsTransport-->>WpHttpCacheManager: Write response files
  WpHttpCacheManager->>FileCache: Validate and import valid files
  WpHttpCacheManager->>WpHttpCacheManager: Remove temporary files
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Package prefetching retains control of its temporary download paths, so hook callbacks cannot leave redirected files unvalidated or uncleared. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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A critical temp-file security issue and moderate transport and cleanup issues remain unresolved.

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Pull request overview

Adds concurrent prefetching of whitelisted package downloads, validating and caching successful responses before bulk upgrades.

Changes:

  • Adds chunked Requests prefetching, validation, caching, transport handling, and logging.
  • Updates URL parsing for non-WordPress contexts.
  • Adds no-network tests and supporting fixtures.
File summaries
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tests/WpHttpCacheManagerPrefetchTest.php Adds comprehensive prefetch behavior and failure-case tests.
tests/includes/wp-filter-stub.php Provides WordPress filter-registration stubs.
tests/includes/prefetch-requests-transport.php Provides canned concurrent transport responses.
php/WP_CLI/WpHttpCacheManager.php Adds prefetch logic and URL parsing updates. Findings: critical predictable temp-file symlink risk (3 votes); moderate mixed transport handling (3 votes); moderate cleanup skipped when processing throws (2 votes); nit missing per-URL success debug logging (1 vote).
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  • The PR description promises a per-URL debug line, but successful prefetches emit none; the normal successful path only logs the aggregate message and summary. Add an http-group debug message in the success branch so --debug identifies each package that was prefetched, not just failures.
				if ( $success && $this->cache->import( $this->whitelist[ $url ]['key'], $file ) ) {
					++$cached;
				} else {
					WP_CLI::debug( "Prefetch of {$url} failed; the upgrader will download it.", 'http' );
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$files = [];
$batch_options = [];
foreach ( $chunk as $url ) {
$files[ $url ] = $temp_dir . uniqid( 'wp-cli-prefetch-', true );
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'verify' => ! empty( ini_get( 'curl.cainfo' ) ) ? ini_get( 'curl.cainfo' ) : true,
];
/** This hook is documented in php/utils.php */
$options = WP_CLI::do_hook( 'http_request_options', $options, 'GET', $url, null, [] );
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if ( isset( $options['transport'] ) ) {
$batch_options['transport'] = $options['transport'];
unset( $options['transport'] );

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In `@php/WP_CLI/WpHttpCacheManager.php`:
- Line 191: In prefetch(), update the filename tracking immediately after the
http_request_options hook to store the effective non-empty string filename or
null, without restoring the original value. In the response validation
condition, require $file to be a string before calling
validate_downloaded_file(), and guard cleanup with the same type check before
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- Line 181: Update the prefetch file setup around the $files mapping to create a
private directory with Utils\make_temp_dir('wp-cli-prefetch-') instead of
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$files = [];
$batch_options = [];
foreach ( $chunk as $url ) {
$files[ $url ] = $temp_dir . uniqid( 'wp-cli-prefetch-', true );

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Use a private temporary directory for prefetch files. uniqid() does not reserve a path under the shared temporary directory. Create the directory with Utils\make_temp_dir( 'wp-cli-prefetch-' ), keep all generated filenames inside it, and remove the files and directory in cleanup code. make_temp_dir() creates a unique directory with owner-only permissions and retries on collisions, so Requests cannot reopen a path replaced by another local user.

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In `@php/WP_CLI/WpHttpCacheManager.php` at line 181, Update the prefetch file
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'verify' => ! empty( ini_get( 'curl.cainfo' ) ) ? ini_get( 'curl.cainfo' ) : true,
];
/** This hook is documented in php/utils.php */
$options = WP_CLI::do_hook( 'http_request_options', $options, 'GET', $url, null, [] );

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Track the effective filename after the hook.

The hook's returned options are passed to Requests, so a callback can remove or replace filename. Requests writes to that per-request path, while prefetch() validates and cleans up $files[$url]. A replacement can fail validation and leave the hook-selected file behind. Removing filename leaves no file to validate. Do not restore the internal filename because that discards the hook's option change. Track the effective filename and guard validation and cleanup when the hook removes it.

Proposed fix
 $options = WP_CLI::do_hook( 'http_request_options', $options, 'GET', $url, null, [] );
+$files[ $url ] = isset( $options['filename'] ) && is_string( $options['filename'] ) && '' !== $options['filename']
+	? $options['filename']
+	: null;
 					&& ! empty( $response->success )
 					&& isset( $response->status_code )
 					&& 200 === (int) $response->status_code
+					&& is_string( $file )
 					&& $this->validate_downloaded_file( $file, $url );
...
-				if ( file_exists( $file ) ) {
+				if ( is_string( $file ) && file_exists( $file ) ) {
 					unlink( $file );
 				}
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$options = WP_CLI::do_hook( 'http_request_options', $options, 'GET', $url, null, [] );
$options = WP_CLI::do_hook( 'http_request_options', $options, 'GET', $url, null, [] );
$files[ $url ] = isset( $options['filename'] ) && is_string( $options['filename'] ) && '' !== $options['filename']
? $options['filename']
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In `@php/WP_CLI/WpHttpCacheManager.php` at line 191, In prefetch(), update the
filename tracking immediately after the http_request_options hook to store the
effective non-empty string filename or null, without restoring the original
value. In the response validation condition, require $file to be a string before
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Temp files are now created with Utils\make_temp_file(), which opens
them exclusively under an owner-only umask, instead of handing Requests
a predictable path to open. Because that helper exits the process when
it cannot create a file, prefetch() bows out early when the temp
directory is not writable and leaves the downloads to the upgrader.

Each chunk runs under try/finally so its temp files are removed even
when the http_request_options hook throws part way through.

Requests takes one transport per batch, so a URL whose hook result
names a different transport than the batch's is skipped rather than
sent through the wrong one. Successful prefetches now log a debug line
per URL, like failures already did.

Option building moves into prefetch_request_options() so the hook's
result is typed as a plain array.
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