The WP_Http class is essentially a wrapper for cURL in the same way that wpdb is essentially a wrapper for mysqli. As such, implemented properly, using cURL directly is exactly as safe as using WP_Http (since WP_Http uses cURL to make the requests). That said, implementing cURL functions optimally isn’t the easiest thing in the … Read more
// 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… }
[*][**] So is there ever any other situation in which I would want to use wp_remote_post or should I always stick with wp_safe_remote_post? The two functions are exactly the same, except wp_safe_remote_post() sets the reject_unsafe_urls argument to true. That argument causes the URL to be passed through wp_http_validate_url() in WP_Http::request(). From that function, we see … Read more
After quite some time letting the error message bugging my screen, I figured out a way to solve this. Yes, it’s a timeout issue, and the codex didn’t help me much. So I tried another approach, by setting a filter; add_filter( ‘http_request_timeout’, ‘wp9838c_timeout_extend’ ); function wp9838c_timeout_extend( $time ) { // Default timeout is 5 return … 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.
Check out download_url() – it’s only loaded in the admin, so you’ll have to include it (or write your own) if needed on the front-end. From download_url() you can use: $response = wp_remote_get( TCS_CPDF_REMOTE_ZIP, array( ‘timeout’ => 300, ‘stream’ => true, ‘filename’ => TCS_CPDF_LOCAL_ZIP ) );
Re the WP HTTP API look for the sslverify and sslcertificates args in this docs page: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http/request/. sslverify defaults to true and sslcertificates accepts an absolute path to a certificate file. If you’re going to be doing a lot of lifting with this API (sounds like it for a real estate site), I would suggest … Read more
If you take a look at WP_HTTP->request() (which all related functions wrap) it provides a filter hook for the purpose of overriding making a request in favor of returning arbitrary data as response: // Allow plugins to short-circuit the request $pre = apply_filters( ‘pre_http_request’, false, $r, $url ); if ( false !== $pre ) return … Read more
Quite an edge case, but the accepted encoding types should be filterable nonetheless. I can see a few situations where fine, granular control over this header would be useful (as in adding an API that uses non-standard encoding). So, while there’s no stock hook for this, I have created a Trac ticket for it and … Read more