WP_Http_Curl::request( string $url, string|array $args = array() ): array|WP_Error

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Send a HTTP request to a URI using cURL extension.

Parameters

$urlstringrequired
The request URL.
$argsstring|arrayoptional
Override the defaults.

Default:array()

Return

array|WP_Error Array containing 'headers', 'body', 'response', 'cookies', 'filename'. A WP_Error instance upon error

Source

public function request( $url, $args = array() ) {
	$defaults = array(
		'method'      => 'GET',
		'timeout'     => 5,
		'redirection' => 5,
		'httpversion' => '1.0',
		'blocking'    => true,
		'headers'     => array(),
		'body'        => null,
		'cookies'     => array(),
		'decompress'  => false,
		'stream'      => false,
		'filename'    => null,
	);

	$parsed_args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );

	if ( isset( $parsed_args['headers']['User-Agent'] ) ) {
		$parsed_args['user-agent'] = $parsed_args['headers']['User-Agent'];
		unset( $parsed_args['headers']['User-Agent'] );
	} elseif ( isset( $parsed_args['headers']['user-agent'] ) ) {
		$parsed_args['user-agent'] = $parsed_args['headers']['user-agent'];
		unset( $parsed_args['headers']['user-agent'] );
	}

	// Construct Cookie: header if any cookies are set.
	WP_Http::buildCookieHeader( $parsed_args );

	$handle = curl_init();

	// cURL offers really easy proxy support.
	$proxy = new WP_HTTP_Proxy();

	if ( $proxy->is_enabled() && $proxy->send_through_proxy( $url ) ) {

		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP );
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy->host() );
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, $proxy->port() );

		if ( $proxy->use_authentication() ) {
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY );
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $proxy->authentication() );
		}
	}

	$is_local   = isset( $parsed_args['local'] ) && $parsed_args['local'];
	$ssl_verify = isset( $parsed_args['sslverify'] ) && $parsed_args['sslverify'];
	if ( $is_local ) {
		/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php */
		$ssl_verify = apply_filters( 'https_local_ssl_verify', $ssl_verify, $url );
	} elseif ( ! $is_local ) {
		/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-http.php */
		$ssl_verify = apply_filters( 'https_ssl_verify', $ssl_verify, $url );
	}

	/*
	 * CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT expect integers. Have to use ceil since.
	 * a value of 0 will allow an unlimited timeout.
	 */
	$timeout = (int) ceil( $parsed_args['timeout'] );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );

	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, ( true === $ssl_verify ) ? 2 : false );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $ssl_verify );

	if ( $ssl_verify ) {
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CAINFO, $parsed_args['sslcertificates'] );
	}

	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $parsed_args['user-agent'] );

	/*
	 * The option doesn't work with safe mode or when open_basedir is set, and there's
	 * a bug #17490 with redirected POST requests, so handle redirections outside Curl.
	 */
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS );

	switch ( $parsed_args['method'] ) {
		case 'HEAD':
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true );
			break;
		case 'POST':
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_POST, true );
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $parsed_args['body'] );
			break;
		case 'PUT':
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT' );
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $parsed_args['body'] );
			break;
		default:
			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $parsed_args['method'] );
			if ( ! is_null( $parsed_args['body'] ) ) {
				curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $parsed_args['body'] );
			}
			break;
	}

	if ( true === $parsed_args['blocking'] ) {
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, array( $this, 'stream_headers' ) );
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, array( $this, 'stream_body' ) );
	}

	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );

	if ( isset( $parsed_args['limit_response_size'] ) ) {
		$this->max_body_length = (int) $parsed_args['limit_response_size'];
	} else {
		$this->max_body_length = false;
	}

	// If streaming to a file open a file handle, and setup our curl streaming handler.
	if ( $parsed_args['stream'] ) {
		if ( ! WP_DEBUG ) {
			$this->stream_handle = @fopen( $parsed_args['filename'], 'w+' );
		} else {
			$this->stream_handle = fopen( $parsed_args['filename'], 'w+' );
		}
		if ( ! $this->stream_handle ) {
			return new WP_Error(
				'http_request_failed',
				sprintf(
					/* translators: 1: fopen(), 2: File name. */
					__( 'Could not open handle for %1$s to %2$s.' ),
					'fopen()',
					$parsed_args['filename']
				)
			);
		}
	} else {
		$this->stream_handle = false;
	}

	if ( ! empty( $parsed_args['headers'] ) ) {
		// cURL expects full header strings in each element.
		$headers = array();
		foreach ( $parsed_args['headers'] as $name => $value ) {
			$headers[] = "{$name}: $value";
		}
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers );
	}

	if ( '1.0' === $parsed_args['httpversion'] ) {
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0 );
	} else {
		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1 );
	}

	/**
	 * Fires before the cURL request is executed.
	 *
	 * Cookies are not currently handled by the HTTP API. This action allows
	 * plugins to handle cookies themselves.
	 *
	 * @since 2.8.0
	 *
	 * @param resource $handle      The cURL handle returned by curl_init() (passed by reference).
	 * @param array    $parsed_args The HTTP request arguments.
	 * @param string   $url         The request URL.
	 */
	do_action_ref_array( 'http_api_curl', array( &$handle, $parsed_args, $url ) );

	// We don't need to return the body, so don't. Just execute request and return.
	if ( ! $parsed_args['blocking'] ) {
		curl_exec( $handle );

		$curl_error = curl_error( $handle );
		if ( $curl_error ) {
			curl_close( $handle );
			return new WP_Error( 'http_request_failed', $curl_error );
		}
		if ( in_array( curl_getinfo( $handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE ), array( 301, 302 ), true ) ) {
			curl_close( $handle );
			return new WP_Error( 'http_request_failed', __( 'Too many redirects.' ) );
		}

		curl_close( $handle );
		return array(
			'headers'  => array(),
			'body'     => '',
			'response' => array(
				'code'    => false,
				'message' => false,
			),
			'cookies'  => array(),
		);
	}

	curl_exec( $handle );

	$processed_headers   = WP_Http::processHeaders( $this->headers, $url );
	$body                = $this->body;
	$bytes_written_total = $this->bytes_written_total;

	$this->headers             = '';
	$this->body                = '';
	$this->bytes_written_total = 0;

	$curl_error = curl_errno( $handle );

	// If an error occurred, or, no response.
	if ( $curl_error || ( 0 === strlen( $body ) && empty( $processed_headers['headers'] ) ) ) {
		if ( CURLE_WRITE_ERROR /* 23 */ === $curl_error ) {
			if ( ! $this->max_body_length || $this->max_body_length !== $bytes_written_total ) {
				if ( $parsed_args['stream'] ) {
					curl_close( $handle );
					fclose( $this->stream_handle );
					return new WP_Error( 'http_request_failed', __( 'Failed to write request to temporary file.' ) );
				} else {
					curl_close( $handle );
					return new WP_Error( 'http_request_failed', curl_error( $handle ) );
				}
			}
		} else {
			$curl_error = curl_error( $handle );
			if ( $curl_error ) {
				curl_close( $handle );
				return new WP_Error( 'http_request_failed', $curl_error );
			}
		}
		if ( in_array( curl_getinfo( $handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE ), array( 301, 302 ), true ) ) {
			curl_close( $handle );
			return new WP_Error( 'http_request_failed', __( 'Too many redirects.' ) );
		}
	}

	curl_close( $handle );

	if ( $parsed_args['stream'] ) {
		fclose( $this->stream_handle );
	}

	$response = array(
		'headers'  => $processed_headers['headers'],
		'body'     => null,
		'response' => $processed_headers['response'],
		'cookies'  => $processed_headers['cookies'],
		'filename' => $parsed_args['filename'],
	);

	// Handle redirects.
	$redirect_response = WP_Http::handle_redirects( $url, $parsed_args, $response );
	if ( false !== $redirect_response ) {
		return $redirect_response;
	}

	if ( true === $parsed_args['decompress']
		&& true === WP_Http_Encoding::should_decode( $processed_headers['headers'] )
	) {
		$body = WP_Http_Encoding::decompress( $body );
	}

	$response['body'] = $body;

	return $response;
}

Hooks

apply_filters( ‘https_local_ssl_verify’, bool|string $ssl_verify, string $url )

Filters whether SSL should be verified for local HTTP API requests.

apply_filters( ‘https_ssl_verify’, bool|string $ssl_verify, string $url )

Filters whether SSL should be verified for non-local requests.

do_action_ref_array( ‘http_api_curl’, resource $handle, array $parsed_args, string $url )

Fires before the cURL request is executed.

Changelog

VersionDescription
2.7.0Introduced.

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