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File: wp-includes/Requests/Transport/fsockopen.php

public function verify_certificate_from_context($host, $context) {
		$meta = stream_context_get_options($context);

		// If we don't have SSL options, then we couldn't make the connection at
		// all
		if (empty($meta) || empty($meta['ssl']) || empty($meta['ssl']['peer_certificate'])) {
			throw new Requests_Exception(rtrim($this->connect_error), 'ssl.connect_error');
		}

		$cert = openssl_x509_parse($meta['ssl']['peer_certificate']);

		return Requests_SSL::verify_certificate($host, $cert);
	}