BBP_Akismet::http_post( string $request, string $host, string $path, string $port = 80, string $ip = '' )

	private function http_post( $request, $host, $path, $port = 80, $ip = '' ) {

		// Preload required variables
		$bbp_version    = bbp_get_version();
		$content_length = strlen( $request );
		$http_host      = $host;
		$blog_charset   = get_option( 'blog_charset' );
		$response       = '';
		$errno          = null;
		$errstr         = null;

		// Untque User Agent
		$akismet_ua     = "bbPress/{$bbp_version} | ";
		$akismet_ua    .= 'Akismet/' . constant( 'AKISMET_VERSION' );

		// Use specific IP (if provided)
		if ( !empty( $ip ) && long2ip( ip2long( $ip ) ) )
			$http_host = $ip;

		// WP HTTP class is available
		if ( function_exists( 'wp_remote_post' ) ) {

			// Setup the arguments
			$http_args = array(
				'body'             => $request,
				'headers'          => array(
					'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=' . $blog_charset,
					'Host'         => $host,
					'User-Agent'   => $akismet_ua
				),
				'httpversion'      => '1.0',
				'timeout'          => 15
			);

			// Where we are sending our request
			$akismet_url = 'http://' . $http_host . $path;

			// Send the request
			$response    = wp_remote_post( $akismet_url, $http_args );

			// Bail if the response is an error
			if ( is_wp_error( $response ) )
				return '';

			// No errors so return response
			return array( $response['headers'], $response['body'] );

		// WP HTTP class is not available (Why not?)
		} else {

			// Header info to use with our socket
			$http_request  = "POST {$path} HTTP/1.0\r\n";
			$http_request .= "Host: {$host}\r\n";
			$http_request .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset={$blog_charset}\r\n";
			$http_request .= "Content-Length: {$content_length}\r\n";
			$http_request .= "User-Agent: {$akismet_ua}\r\n";
			$http_request .= "\r\n";
			$http_request .= $request;

			// Open a socket connection
			if ( false !== ( $fs = @fsockopen( $http_host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10 ) ) ) {

				// Write our request to the pointer
				fwrite( $fs, $http_request );

				// Loop through pointer and compile a response
				while ( !feof( $fs ) ) {
					// One TCP-IP packet at a time
					$response .= fgets( $fs, 1160 );
				}

				// Close our socket
				fclose( $fs );

				// Explode the response into usable data
				$response = explode( "\r\n\r\n", $response, 2 );
			}

			// Return the response ('' if error/empty)
			return $response;
		}
	}