Thread:Extension talk:Push/File Push Hanging

I'm trying to push some images to another wiki and am running into the same problem no matter what page or image I am pushing. I am able to push the page content, but when I click on the 'embedded files' checkbox in the Push Files special page I run into the hanging problem. The page starts the push, gathers the file information, but when it gets to the first file the push hangs/stops after that. The only error I've been able to track down comes from the php error file:

[Fri Jul 12 22:26:40 2013] [error] [client (MY.IP)] PHP Fatal error: Call to protected MWHttpRequest::__construct from context 'ApiPushImages' in extensions/Push/api/ApiPushImages.php on line 287, referer: /index.php?title=Special:Push&action=submit&debug=true

I did some investigating and the parent constructor for the CurlHttpRequest in /includes/HTTPFunctions.php has been changed to 'protected' in this version of MediaWiki, which is why we are getting this error. Is there a different way to call the CurlHttpRequest in ApiPushImages that could fix this problem and could this have an effect on if the files are getting transferred or not? Not sure exactly, but if there's no Curl Request we can't transfer the files.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

Settings: MediaWiki 1.20.5 Apache version 2.2.24 PHP version 5.3.24 $wgEnableUploads   = true; $wgAllowCopyUploads = true;