A reported to WordPress.org Trac in #38427 the fsockopen transport fails to send a Content-Length: 0 header for empty payloads.
This causes some servers to respond with a 411 error.
To quote the above ticket:
HTTP result code 411 is "Length required". RFC2616 Section 14.13 says Content-Length header "SHOULD" be included. In practice, it is not used for GET nor HEAD requests, but is expected for POST requests.
A reported to WordPress.org Trac in #38427 the fsockopen transport fails to send a
Content-Length: 0header for empty payloads.This causes some servers to respond with a 411 error.
To quote the above ticket: