wp_remote_get , headers referer?

Here is working example

$response = wp_remote_get( 'https://www.ads-software.com' );
if( is_array($response) ) {
    var_dump($response);exit;
}

check documentation here
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_remote_get

can you give a working example using the second example instead as in:

wp_remote_get( 'https://www.example.com/index.php?action=foo', array( 'timeout' => 120, 'httpversion' => '1.1' ) );

but with headers included instead?

My logic makes me think that this would work:

wp_remote_get( 'https://www.example.com/index.php?action=foo', array( 'timeout' => 120, 'headers' => 'https://mydomain.com' ) );

but it doesn’t.

What am i doing wrong?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Rado.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Rado.

I believe the value of the headers argument needs to be a complete header string as one might supply for a call to headers(), like so:
'headers' => 'Referer: https://mydomain.com',

If you have several headers to send, assign an array of string values, each element formatted as in my example. Also note that the Referer: header, as is tradition, is intentionally misspelled. “Referrer” is proper English.

Untested though. If you still have trouble let me know and I’ll dig deeper.

thanks, but i can’t get it to work.

wp_remote_get($imageUrl, array('headers' => 'Referer: https://mydomain.com')));

$imageurl is the url to the image.

i’m not quiet sure if it’s the header not being sent of some other issue, the origin of the issue started when a client requested that images that were hosted on his gallery would not to be visited directly, so i added some stuff to an htaccess file where the images reside:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www\.)?mydomain\.com.*$ [NC]  
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ / [L]

which works perfectly as it should, when someone tries to visit https://mydomain.com/gallery/1.jpg they get a 404 , but if you visit https://mydomain.com and https://mydomain.com/gallery/1.jpg is linked on the page it will find the image as the referer header sent contains the mydomain.com.

The issue is the client is also using a plugin which uses the function wp_remote_get when you publish a new post and it grabs the first image it finds in the post body automatically and attaches it as a thumbnail to the post. This is what am in trying to get to work here, but even if i add the referer header it will not work, it works instantly if i remove the htaccess code.

Any ideas?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Rado.