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External Libraries: Update the Requests library to version 2.0.17.#11082

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The most notable changes are PHP 8.5 compatibility fixes in version 2.0.16. Other releases between 2.0.11 and 2.0.17 contain only certificate bundle updates, which are skipped as WordPress manages its own certificate bundle (see #62812).

I basically downloaded the Requests package from GitHub and manually copied its contents to src/wp-includes/Requests, ignoring the library/ directory, which appears to have been modified by WP Core to handle backward compatibility differently from upstream. I'm not sure if there is a better way to handle the Requests update. While doing it, I also had to manually ensure that the __wakeup() methods in Hooks.php, Iri.php, and Session.php added in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/56835 as security hardening are preserved in this update (related upstream ticket: WordPress/Requests#949).

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Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64752


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The most notable changes are PHP 8.5 compatibility fixes in version 2.0.16. Other releases between 2.0.11 and 2.0.17 contain only certificate bundle updates, which are skipped as WordPress manages its own certificate bundle (see #62812).

I basically downloaded the Requests package from GitHub and manually copied its contents to `src/wp-includes/Requests`, ignoring the `library/` directory, which appears to have been modified by WP Core to handle backward compatibility differently from upstream. I'm not sure if there is a better way to handle the Requests update. While doing it, I also had to manually ensure that the `__wakeup()` methods in `Hooks.php`, `Iri.php`, and `Session.php` added in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/56835 as security hardening are preserved in this update (related upstream ticket: WordPress/Requests#949).

References:
- [Requests 2.0.12 release notes](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/releases/tag/v2.0.12)
- [Requests 2.0.13 release notes](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/releases/tag/v2.0.13)
- [Requests 2.0.14 release notes](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/releases/tag/v2.0.14)
- [Requests 2.0.15 release notes](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/releases/tag/v2.0.15)
- [Requests 2.0.16 release notes](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/releases/tag/v2.0.16)
- [Requests 2.0.17 release notes](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/releases/tag/v2.0.17)
- [Full list of changes since 2.0.11](WordPress/Requests@v2.0.11...v2.0.17)
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A commit was made that fixes the Trac ticket referenced in the description of this pull request.

SVN changeset: 61769
GitHub commit: 33f013a

This PR will be closed, but please confirm the accuracy of this and reopen if there is more work to be done.

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