Make a HTTP request to a remote URL.

Usage #Usage

WP_CLI\Utils\http_request( $method, $url, $data = null, $headers = array(), $options = array() )

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Notes #Notes

Wraps the Requests HTTP library to ensure every request includes a cert.

# `wp core download` verifies the hash for a downloaded WordPress archive

$md5_response = Utils\http_request( 'GET', $download_url . '.md5' );
if ( 20 != substr( $md5_response->status_code, 0, 2 ) ) {
     WP_CLI::error( "Couldn't access md5 hash for release (HTTP code {$response->status_code})" );
}

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Related #Related

• WP_CLI\Utils\esc_like() – First half of escaping for LIKE special characters % and _ before preparing for MySQL.
• WP_CLI\Utils\proc_open_compat() – Windows compatible `proc_open()`. Works around bug in PHP, and also deals with *nix-like `ENV_VAR=blah cmd` environment variable prefixes.
• WP_CLI\Utils\isPiped() – Checks whether the output of the current script is a TTY or a pipe / redirect
• WP_CLI\Utils\basename() – Locale-independent version of basename()
• WP_CLI\Utils\parse_ssh_url() – Parse a SSH url for its host, port, and path.
• WP_CLI\Utils\get_named_sem_ver() – Compare two version strings to get the named semantic version.
• WP_CLI\Utils\write_csv() – Write data as CSV to a given file.