[wp-hackers] WP_HTTP deflating small packets

Wed Mar 2 06:30:24 UTC 2011

Core Control can indeed show you which transport is in use, but the test
functions are useless in this context.

On 2 March 2011 17:27, aditya sharma <sharmaaditya333 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You should download the Core Control plugin,
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/core-control/, and test out the HTTP
> transports.
> Warm Regards
> Aditya Sharma
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au
> >wrote:
>
> > Yes, WordPress is adding request headers to say what it supports, and it
> > supports deflating and decompressing the return values.
> > Now, the question is why it's not working correctly for you.
> >
> > The first step is to figure out which HTTP transport is in use, This
> could
> > be cURL (but, hopefully it isn't). Throw some debugging in
> > WP_HTTP::request() and get the class_name() of the actual http transport
> in
> > use.
> >
> > The 2nd step is being able to reproduce it. Every server will return
> > content
> > in a different way, if you can setup a page on a host somewhere (just a
> > static document) which reliably reproduces it, that would be really good.
> >
> > The 3rd step is working out if the extra headers shouldn't be added for
> > that
> > transport, or if someone forgot to call the decompression/encoding
> > functions
> > on that transport correct, or if the server is simply doing something
> > strange and not following the spec 100% (Which is very common, most have
> > their little issues that clients just work around)
> >
> > On 2 March 2011 08:00, Tim Nash <tim at newmedias.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > CURL is working fine, and can we skip the suggest to upload phpinfo
> > > functions please :) The hint to CURL working fine being strings over 7
> > > chars long were coming back fine.
> > >
> > > The issue is not with CURL (doing a simple curl request also brings
> > > the content back even if below 7 characters) the issue is with wp_http
> > > object automatically inserting extra parameters in the header,
> > > presumably to aid pushing and pulling large amount of content.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Tim
> > >
> > > On 1 March 2011 19:27, aditya sharma <sharmaaditya333 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Can you create a phpinfo page and link that to this post so we can
> see
> > > > what's currently configured? Just create a page called phpinfo.php
> > which
> > > > contains the following line:
> > > >
> > > > <?php phpinfo() ?>
> > > >
> > > > And upload it to your site via FTP. This will tell us a little about
> > how
> > > > your server is configured and whether or not cURL is enabled.
> > > >
> > > > Warm Regards
> > > > Aditya Sharma
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Tim Nash <tim at newmedias.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >> We have been having interesting problem with wp_http simple request
> > > >> returns either a 1 or an error string.
> > > >> Problem is instead of return a 1 it appears to be returning a binary
> > > >> string. If we put more then 7 chars on the page then they are
> returned
> > > >> happily.
> > > >>
> > > >> $request = new WP_Http;
> > > >>   $result = $request->request($url);
> > > >>   if (is_wp_error($result)) {
> > > >>       return FALSE;
> > > >>   }
> > > >>   if ($result['response']['code'] == 200) {
> > > >>       // success
> > > >>       return $result['body'];
> > > >>   } else {
> > > >>       return FALSE;
> > > >>   }
> > > >> What's being returned
> > > >> Array ( [method] => GET [timeout] => 5 [redirection] => 5
> > > >> [httpversion] => 1.0 [user-agent] => WordPress/3.1;
> > > >> http://wordpress_dev [blocking] => 1 [headers] => Array (
> > > >> [Accept-Encoding] => deflate;q=1.0, compress;q=0.5 ) [cookies] =>
> > > >> Array ( ) [body] => [compress] => [decompress] => 1 [sslverify] => 1
> > > >> [ssl] => [local] => )
> > > >>
> > > >> The weird bit is:
> > > >> Array ( [0] => Accept-Encoding: deflate;q=1.0, compress;q=0.5 )
> > > >>
> > > >> Looking at wp_http this seems to being set and can't be overridden.
> We
> > > >> have got round the problem as we are simply changing the return to
> > > >> pass enough data but thats a hack rather then a solution, wondering
> if
> > > >> anyone had come across this problem (that piece of code has been our
> > > >> work horse for some time so its only a recent thing) and if anyone
> has
> > > >> a solution.
> > > >>
> > > >> Cheers
> > > >> Tim
> > > >>
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> > > --
> > > Tim Nash
> > > Technical Director
> > >
> > > Coding Futures Ltd
> > > The Tannery
> > > 91 Kirkstall Road
> > > Leeds
> > > LS3 1HS
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