WP_REST_URL_Details_Controller::get_remote_url( string $url ): string|WP_Error

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This function’s access is marked private. This means it is not intended for use by plugin or theme developers, only in other core functions. It is listed here for completeness.

Retrieves the document title from a remote URL.

Parameters

$urlstringrequired
The website URL whose HTML to access.

Return

string|WP_Error The HTTP response from the remote URL on success.
WP_Error if no response or no content.

Source

private function get_remote_url( $url ) {

	/*
	 * Provide a modified UA string to workaround web properties which block WordPress "Pingbacks".
	 * Why? The UA string used for pingback requests contains `WordPress/` which is very similar
	 * to that used as the default UA string by the WP HTTP API. Therefore requests from this
	 * REST endpoint are being unintentionally blocked as they are misidentified as pingback requests.
	 * By slightly modifying the UA string, but still retaining the "WordPress" identification (via "WP")
	 * we are able to work around this issue.
	 * Example UA string: `WP-URLDetails/5.9-alpha-51389 (+http://localhost:8888)`.
	*/
	$modified_user_agent = 'WP-URLDetails/' . get_bloginfo( 'version' ) . ' (+' . get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . ')';

	$args = array(
		'limit_response_size' => 150 * KB_IN_BYTES,
		'user-agent'          => $modified_user_agent,
	);

	/**
	 * Filters the HTTP request args for URL data retrieval.
	 *
	 * Can be used to adjust response size limit and other WP_Http::request() args.
	 *
	 * @since 5.9.0
	 *
	 * @param array  $args Arguments used for the HTTP request.
	 * @param string $url  The attempted URL.
	 */
	$args = apply_filters( 'rest_url_details_http_request_args', $args, $url );

	$response = wp_safe_remote_get( $url, $args );

	if ( WP_Http::OK !== wp_remote_retrieve_response_code( $response ) ) {
		// Not saving the error response to cache since the error might be temporary.
		return new WP_Error(
			'no_response',
			__( 'URL not found. Response returned a non-200 status code for this URL.' ),
			array( 'status' => WP_Http::NOT_FOUND )
		);
	}

	$remote_body = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response );

	if ( empty( $remote_body ) ) {
		return new WP_Error(
			'no_content',
			__( 'Unable to retrieve body from response at this URL.' ),
			array( 'status' => WP_Http::NOT_FOUND )
		);
	}

	return $remote_body;
}

Hooks

apply_filters( ‘rest_url_details_http_request_args’, array $args, string $url )

Filters the HTTP request args for URL data retrieval.

Changelog

VersionDescription
5.9.0Introduced.

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