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wp_remote_get returns an error for valid URL

May 18, 2022 by IT Nursery

I currently have the following snippet of php to fetch some HTML and render it in my theme(squash theme). <?php $response = wp_remote_get( ‘http://www.toucan-it.co.uk/wp-content/themes/squash/index5.html’ ); print $response [‘body’]; ?> The file I’m trying to request is available at the following URL. http://www.toucan-it.co.uk/wp-content/themes/squash/index5.html Problem The problem is when trying to retrieve ‘index5.html’ via the web browser … Read more

How to get the generated query string of wp_remote_get?

May 16, 2022 by IT Nursery

I have some very basic data that I am posting to a proprietary lead capturing system. Whenever I submit my form data to their system the body of the request is an error 500 page. I am trying to debug the problem with their developer, it clearly doesn’t like something in my query string, and … Read more

wp_remote_get() not retrieving pages properly

May 15, 2022 by IT Nursery

I am using wp_remote_get() to retrieve different pages from the web. It is a news site. Most of the time, this works successfully. However, sometimes, the request returns success (code 200), but the content of the page is differet from the page that is retrieved by a brwoser (the content of the page returned with … Read more

wp_remote_get – cURL error 28 – only on same domain

May 14, 2022 by IT Nursery

On my website I use wp_remote_get to fetch data from mydomain.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/75 When I run it on my localhost it works fine, but after sending to production server (mydomain.com) suddenly I’m getting error: ‘cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 5000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received’ + VPS starts acting crazy (100% cpu usage and memory). … Read more

wp_remote_get vs. file_get_contents vs. cURL?

May 13, 2022 by IT Nursery

I need to fetch the contents of a remote file. Which is better for performance – wp_remote_get, file_get_contents, or cURL? How exactly does wp_remote_get work? Can you suppress errors, ex. @wp_remote_get ? Thanks 1 Answer 1 Always use wp_remote_get when in a WordPress context. It figures out the correct way, be it curl or something … Read more

HTTP request on localhost failing

May 11, 2022 by IT Nursery

I have a WordPress instance on my development box with the WP REST API plugin installed. I am attempting to create my own plugin to use wp_remote_get() to communicate with my own custom PHP application on the same box. I have set up my hosts file with the name of the custom PHP application. I … Read more

How to consume and display external data in WordPress from another website

May 10, 2022 by IT Nursery

I am trying to access data from another website to display on a WordPress Website I am developing. So far I have the following: <?php /* Template Name: Testing remote data */ get_header(); <div class=”main”> <div class=”col-sm-12″> <header> <h2>Testing remote data</h2> </header> </div> <div class=”container”> <div id=”content” role=”main”> <div class=”col-sm-12″> <?php $url=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/”;// this url is … Read more

rewrite script to use wp_remote_get instead of file_get_contents_curl

May 7, 2022 by IT Nursery

I have a script that pulls the facebook likes via facebook graph and writes them in my DB. However it uses file_get_contents_curl for the request and this is causing problems, so I’d like to use the wp_remote_get() command. I’ve tried to change it but somehow I can’t do it (I don’t really have PHP knowledge). … Read more

HTTP digest authentication using wp_remote_get

April 30, 2022 by IT Nursery

I am able to implement http basic auth in wp_remote_get using the following code $args = array( ‘headers’ => array( ‘Authorization’ => ‘Basic ‘ . base64_encode( $username . ‘:’ . $password ) ) ); wp_remote_request( $url, $args ); Is it possible to do http digest based authentication using wp_remote_get function? 2 s 2 It is … Read more

How to wp_upload_bits() to a sub-folder?

April 30, 2022 by IT Nursery

I am using wp_upload_bits() to copy an obtained remote image… $upload = wp_upload_bits($file, ”, wp_remote_retrieve_body( $get )); Image source example: https://logo.clearbit.com/starcomww.com The following code seems to obtain the image well enough: $get = wp_remote_get( $image_url ); $type = wp_remote_retrieve_header( $get, ‘content-type’ ); $file (name of file) is set at eg. starcom-mediavest-group.png So I see how … Read more