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

[Anshu Prateek]

The X-Xss-Protection header is a standard header, that you get even while
using curl.

http://pastebin.com/SbjSnKFd

Since its complaining about too many redirects, and looking at the logs,
its getting stuck in the login loop for some reason.

One quick way of checking it would be to write a php script to fetch the
content from google groups and see if that works fine.


regards
Anshu Prateek


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Mike Walsh <mpwalsh8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Mike Walsh - mpwalsh8 at gmail.com
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