Could you drop the allow_url_fopen requirement?

  • First of all, thanks for your plugin. I just switched to a different hoster. This hoster has disabled allow_url_fopen and neither allows to change this setting via .htaccess or .user.ini nor is willing to change this setting. As a consequence, “view” links no longer work.

    From what I understand, this is due to WP_Publication_Archive::open_link() using readfile() which in turn uses fopen() to read the content of a file from a (possibly) remote location. This seems to be deprecated, a growing number of hosters disable allow_url_fopen.

    For now, I’ve applied a quick fix, replacing readfile( $uri ) in WP_Publication_Archive::open_link() with fsockopen, but it’s ugly and doesn’t work (I get the HTTP headers wrong; it’s been a long day and will give up for now, maybe I’ll have another look at another time):

    if ( 'https://' == substr( $uri, 0, 7 ) ) {
	$noschema = explode( '/', substr( $uri, 7 ), 2 );
	$host = $noschema[0];
	$path = $noschema[1];

	$socket = fsockopen( $host, 80 );
	if ( $socket ) {
		$out = 'GET /' . $path . " HTTP/1.1\n" .
			'Host: ' . $host . "\n" .
			"Connection: close\n\n";
		fwrite( $socket, $out );
		while ( ! feof( $socket ) ) {
			echo fread( $socket, 8192 );
		}
		fclose( $socket );
	} else {
		trigger_error( 'Could not connect to ' . $host, E_USER_ERROR );
	}
}

    Of course, this fix will be gone with the next update. Could you look into this? Thanks a lot!

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  • Thread Starter jpod

    (@jpod)

    So, this is my new work around, which works, sort of (i.e., it displays HTTP URIs, but lacks proper error handling of any sort). I’d really appreciate if you would include a saner solution.

    if ( 'https://' == substr( $uri, 0, 7 ) ) {
	$noschema = explode( '/', substr( $uri, 7 ), 2 );
	$host = $noschema[0];
	$path = $noschema[1];

	$socket = fsockopen( $host, 80 );
	if ( $socket ) {
		$http_request = 'GET /' . $path . " HTTP/1.1\n" .
			'Host: ' . $host . "\n" .
			"Connection: close\n\n";
		fwrite( $socket, $http_request );

		while ( ! feof( $socket ) ) {
			$line = fgets( $socket );
			if ( "\n" == $line || "\r\n" == $line ) {
				break;
			}
		}
		while ( ! feof( $socket ) ) {
			print fread( $socket, 8192 );
		}

		fclose( $socket );
	} else {
		trigger_error( 'Could not connect to ' . $host, E_USER_ERROR );
	}
} else {

// Return the file
	ob_clean();
	flush();
	readfile( $uri );
}
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