[wp-hackers] wp_die vs hooking into admin_notices

[Peter Westwood]

On 28 Jan 2011, at 17:41, Ozh wrote:

> The best way would be not to rely on curl but use the HTTP API instead.
> http://codex.wordpress.org/HTTP_API
> 

And the second thing is not to abuse an activation hook like this.

If your plugin needs something check in in code run on admin_init and display an admin_notice.

Cheers
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