Neither are high performance, and they do different things. fetch_feed is for grabbing feeds RSS feeds etc, wp_remote_get is for grabbing arbitrary items. Neither are fast, and the performance difference between each is negligible or irrelevant, but technically fetch_feed is slower than wp_remote_get, not because it’s faster or slower at grabbing over the network, but … Read more
Try to increase the timeout (default is 5). $response = wp_remote_get( ‘http://www.toucan-it.co.uk/wp-content/themes/squash/index5.html’, array( ‘timeout’ => 120, ‘httpversion’ => ‘1.1’ ) );
While the other answers are pretty good in providing an answer to your question (how to get the generated url), i will answer what i guess you really want to know (how do i get it to call thirdparty.com?foo=bar with wp_remote_get) The Answer is: the $args array you use to transmit the url parameters won’t … Read more
The HTTP request sent by wp_remote_get() is different from the one that a browser sends. E.g the user-agent is different (see documentation). Some websites respond differently based on this. The second argument of wp_remote_get() allows one to alter the request. Websites might also respond differently depending on the IP or the number of requests received … Read more
By default, WordPress set the timeout value for cURL in wp-includes/class-wp-http-curl.php to 5 seconds and the same value is also set to HTTP requests in wp-includes/class-http.php that is a newer class for making HTTP requests that can use also cURL if it’s present in the server. In your case, 5 seconds was not enough to … Read more
Always use wp_remote_get when in a WordPress context. It figures out the correct way, be it curl or something else, and uses that. Simple.
To make wp_remote_get() work you need to check your php.ini file. In your php.ini file you need to set allow_url_include = On, which by default is set as allow_url_include = Off. Otherwise wp_remote_get() will not work. Reference: allow_url_include
// make request… (optionally save in transient for faster future fetches) $dom = new DOMDocument(); $dom->loadHTML(wp_remote_retrieve_body($request)); $sections=$dom->getElementsByTagName(“section”); foreach ($sections as $section) { // Do something… }
You can try this: foreach( $posts as $post ) { $url = sprintf( ‘http://graph.facebook.com/?id=%s’, get_permalink( $post->ID ) ); $response = wp_remote_get( $url, array( ‘timeout’ => 15 ) ); if( ! is_wp_error( $response ) && isset( $response[‘response’][‘code’] ) && 200 === $response[‘response’][‘code’] ) { $body = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response ); $fb = json_decode( $body ); if( ! … Read more
It is possible to do HTTP DIGEST authentication with wp_remote_get(), but it’s somewhat complicated. I’ve written a short wrapper function you can use.