[wp-hackers] wp_remote_get() fails but wget works?

[Mike Walsh]

Sorry for the double posting ... I thought I had lost my draft.


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Mike Walsh <mpwalsh8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My WordPress Google Form plugin utilizes wp_remote_get() to retrieve the
> contents of a Google Form and render it as part of a WordPress post or
> page.  This has worked well for quite sometime.  Last week Google updated
> Google Forms.  In addition to changing the UI and adding some new features,
> the format of the published URL changed.  This should not have been an
> issue as there wasn't anything specific about the URL my plugin was
> dependent on.
>
> However, my plugin no longer works with any newly Google Form that uses
> the new URL.  I receive a "Too many redirects" error from wp_remote_get().
>
> [04-Feb-2013 12:51:58 UTC] Array
> (
>     [0] =>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bPgvlQ-zwdVVBmmLEC0YtUu-yf94rshDLbMPcUFbsCU/viewform
>     [1] => Array
>         (
>             [sslverify] =>
>             [timeout] => 30
>             [redirection] => 10
>         )
>
>     [2] => WP_Error Object
>         (
>             [errors] => Array
>                 (
>                     [http_request_failed] => Array
>                         (
>                             [0] => Too many redirects.
>                         )
>
>                 )
>
>             [error_data] => Array
>                 (
>                 )
>
>         )
>
> )
>
> What is odd is that I am able to retrieve the form content using the Unix
> wget command line utility. I am concerned I may be facing a situation where
> Google views my request as a XSS request as this appears in the response:
>
> [x-xss-protection] => 1; mode=block
>
> I've been digging through WP_Http all morning trying to identify what
> might be different and what I can do about it.  I am stumped.  I have
> posted the log from WP_Http, the log from wget, and the results from wget
> to PasteBin in hopes that someone who understands this lower level stuff
> better than I do may have some ideas.
>
>
>    1. wp_remote_get Log:  http://pastebin.com/WwnZiEB2
>    2. wget Log: http://pastebin.com/jKMFbCpG
>    3. wget Results:  http://pastebin.com/4FAeuei0
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Walsh - mpwalsh8 at gmail.com
>



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Mike Walsh - mpwalsh8 at gmail.com