[wp-hackers] POST with XML headers

[Tom Barrett]

Thanks Dion, that is exactly what I was looking for.

On 16 September 2011 16:13, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> You'll need to look into using the wp_remote_*() set of functions,
> which are part of the new HTTP API in WordPress.
>
> References:
>  http://codex.wordpress.org/HTTP_API
>
> http://kovshenin.com/archives/a-note-on-wp_http-and-http-requests-in-wordpress/
>
> adapted from kovshenin's link, the curl command you've got would be
> similar to this:
>
> $url = 'https://company.freeagentcentral.com/company/users';
> $username = 'your-username';
> $password = 'your-password';
> $headers = array(
>     'Authorization' => 'Basic ' . base64_encode( "$username:$password" ),
>     'Accept' => 'application/xml',
>     'Content-Type' => 'application/xml'
> );
> $result = wp_remote_get( $url, array( 'headers' => $headers ) );
>
> print_r($result);
>
> Cheers
> Dion / @dd32
>
> On 17 September 2011 00:54, Tom Barrett <tcbarrett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm looking at hooking into the free agent central API (
> > http://www.freeagentcentral.com/developers/freeagent-api)
> >
> > This is there command line curl syntax:
> > curl -u userid:password -H 'Accept: application/xml' -H 'Content-Type:
> > application/xml' \
> >  https://company.freeagentcentral.com/company/users
> >
> > My experience with curl related fetching of remote urls in WordPress is
> > limited to wp_remote_fopen() which just takes the url as an argument.
> I've
> > had a read through wp-includes/functions.php without seeing anything that
> > would let me POST with xml headers. But I'm prone to missing things.
> >
> > Is there a something in WordPress for me to hook into to do this? Or is
> this
> > just a job for curl from basics without any WordPress goodness wrapped
> > around it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
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