I have a website in local development at test:8888 and I am trying to get the following to work in my functions.php file. $response = wp_remote_get( ‘test:8888/?p=1’ ); print_r($response); Unfortunately this is printing WP_Error Object ( [errors] => Array ( [http_request_failed] => Array ( [0] => A valid URL was not provided. ) ) [error_data] … Read more
I’ve been searching for some WP specific way to detect any referrer. Have an idea? I know how to do that in PHP but I just want to know if there’s some WP function to do that? EDIT: here is what I ‘m trying to test => $referer = wp_get_referer(); if ( strpos($referer ,’http://wordpress.org’) !== … Read more
I’m using WordPress http api to get a server response code from youtube api so I check the validity of a video. I do this in a function from my functions.php which processes my post form where I collect the url of the youtube video. The issue is I’m getting inconsistent responses as where videos … Read more
I’m trying to create an API where external clients can authenticate users and reset their password through a REST API. I’ve already seen this: External WordPress API. However, it looks like this is not possible through the this plugin. Are there any way of extending this API with my own methods? How would one implement … Read more
$response = wp_remote_post( ‘ssl://securesite.com’, array( ‘method’ => ‘POST’, ‘body’ => $string, // variable is set ‘timeout’ => apply_filters( ‘http_request_timeout’, 15), ‘sslverify’ => true )); error_log(print_r($response, TRUE)); if ( is_wp_error($response) ) { return FALSE; } $result = wp_remote_retrieve_body($response); The result is an error: [30-Aug-2011 21:53:53] WP_Error Object ( [errors] => Array ( [http_request_failed] => Array ( … Read more
I’m using wp_remote_post() on a project and it works great. But seems like the server on which I need to make the POST request is a Windows (ISS) server. So the third-party service that provides this specific endpoint requires that all POST requests has a Windows-1252 character encoding, otherwise there will be issues with special … Read more
I like to learn some of WP automation. The WP get inbound http request to site url and the question is how to create a publication based on post (or get) data structure? How can maintain eventhandler for this and take string from the array of $_POST? to make all of this wp_insert_post( array( ‘post_title’ … Read more
I am working on a plugin that posts an XML request to a vendor’s shipping API to get shipping quotes. The XML is stored in a string called $xml. I can post the XML request successfully with curl using these parameters: $curl = curl_init( $this->settings[‘api_url’] ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 ); curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1 … Read more
I’m hosting a wp site on my own server (at home) and I would like to use wp cli to import media from my own computer. On my computer, I have a web server and I asks to wp-cli to import media from “http://192.168.0.2/wpTemp/media.txt”. It fails! After investigations, it is due to the ip address … Read more
I’m trying to work with an API that expects an XML string in the body of the post. Additionally, the docs for the API specify: Please post with mime-type text/xml with the XML in the body of the post I want to use the WordPress HTTP API to make this work, but I’m running into … Read more
