Curl error

Hi sterndata,

Wordfence has a fallback if curl is not available. So it must be available but failing. This is either a bug with WordPress, or Wordfence will need to be changed before the next release. I will pass this on to the dev team and see what they say.

thanks. I’ll mark this as resolved for now.

still happening with 4.6-alpha-37597

I am having this issue and I am on the public wordpress plugin repo/market place. Is there a correction to this issue that one can apply?

I am getting the error when attempting to acquire the free API key:
“we encountered a problem fetching the free key: There was an error connecting to the the Wordfence scanning servers: cURL error 3: malformed”

(I made an account to post this, so hope it helps)

After digging with debugger for a few hours. I found the issue in a new part of WP.

In: wp-includes/class-reuqests.php
Lines: 593-597

if ($options['idn'] !== false) {
			$iri = new Requests_IRI($url);
			$iri->host = Requests_IDNAEncoder::encode($iri->ihost);
			$url = $iri->uri;
		}

In class Request_IRI, $this->uri seems to be never set.

Dirty fix:

if ($options['idn'] !== false) {
			$iri = new Requests_IRI($url);
			$iri->host = Requests_IDNAEncoder::encode($iri->ihost);
//			$url = $iri->uri;
		}

And wordfence works.
So it’s either not a wordfence bug. Or somehow the idn option needs to be false for the 4.6.x version.

Either way, i’ll look into it better later and make a bug report.

scvwebfire: Great work!

Hi all,

There is a change coming in the next Wordfence version to prevent this error message, which will be available before WordPress 4.6 is out.

@sterndata: I saw that WFAsa already caught up with you on slack, but thought I’d reply here too, since other users may find this post by searching. Your post from the WP alpha did make it in our system, so thanks for the early warning!

-Matt R