[wp-forums] Accessing external sites

[Otto]

WP_HTTP will use whatever transport is available, so that's not an
issue (although having curl is best, ideally).

DNS resolution happens at a lower level than the transports. Doesn't
matter what transport you use, no DNS means no DNS.

-Otto



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:05 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> on 28/06/2012 23:57 Otto said the following:
>
>> No, this guy is having a hostname-resolution problem. Basically, his
>> server either doesn't have DNS set up, or it's firewalled or
>> something.
>
>
> That's my gut instinct too but the hosts claim no firewall and that they can
> ping something (we're not sure what).
>
>
>> The allow_url_fopen setting is not required, nor desirable. If the PHP
>> install has curl enabled, that would be used instead.
>
>
> So ideally, you need cUrl enabled, yes?
>
> Mel
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