Title: Jetpack: Skip HTTPS support checking to reduce HTTP requests
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: February 5, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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# Jetpack: Skip HTTPS support checking to reduce HTTP requests

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 05 February 2021

07:25:47 GMT+0000

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Since Jetpack works across many different hosting providers (some which may not 
support HTTPS / SSL), it attempts to detect support by making an HTTPS request to
WordPress.com, which is then cached for 1 day. On VIP, SSL is always supported so
we can skip this check by filtering the transient used to store the result.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1972](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1972)