Wordpress Error: Download failed. There are no HTTP transports available which can complete the requested request.

Today I found this error when I tried to update to wordpress version to 4.3.1. Remember, my wordpress was hosted in IIS with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. In the past whenever I tried to update the wordpress it worked like charm.

It was very frustrating for me to suddenly receive the error

Download failed. There are no HTTP transports available which can complete the requested request.

On googling I found to uncomment the following extensions from php.ini

• extension=php_curl.dll
• extension=php_openssl.dll

Remember, I hosted my blog on windows environment with IIS so I uncommented both extensions from PHP folder (Where PHP is installed) & Windows folder as both of these folders were containing php.ini file. You just have to remove the preceding semi colon, save the file & that’s it you have enable the extension. If you guys know any other method to get rid of this error then please share in the form of comments.

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