cURL request to plugin repository fails 403

  • Resolved SpeakOut!

    (@123host)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    I am trying to update a file in my plugin by getting the original contents from the wordpress repository via cURL

    The URL is of the format https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/(plugin)/trunk/includes/example.php – visiting the URL in a browser shows the code, exactly what I am after.

    However, the cURL response is

    <html>
<head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>403 Forbidden</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>

    It appears grabbing source code this way isn’t allowed. file_get_contents() doesn’t work either.

    Is there a way to do this that works?

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • I have just tested this. A curl on the console works without any problems. However, it only works via PHP if you set the UserAgent to a browser. So with such a specification in the code:

    $ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13';
curl_setopt( $cd, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $ua);

    If this still doesn’t work for you, please show the code you used to see where the difference is.

    Thread Starter SpeakOut!

    (@123host)

    YES! Thanks so much, that worked.

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