Smart block triggers cURL timeouts and blank pages
Enabling smart block makes pages and the settings screen time out with cURL error 28 and fail to load.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 12 February 2024 · last reported 28 July 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who turn on smart blocking in HTTP Requests Manager see cURL error 28 timeouts on core API and plugin calls, sometimes on every page.
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