Where the web server hosting the WordPress site is located behind a proxy server, the WordPress admin and user may experience technical problems. Symptoms include:
– very slow loading of the dashboard
– askimet not working
These can be resolved by first setting proxy credentials in wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and then editing the akismet_http_post function in wp-content/plugins/askimet/askimet.php along the lines suggested at:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-trac/2006-August/003435.html
Where your proxy server requires authentication you will need to provide this in askimet.php using the line:
$http_request .= 'Proxy-Authorization: ' . 'Basic ' . base64_encode _ ('username:password')."rn";
remembering to substitute in your actual username and password.
The new akismet_http_post function should therefore be:
function akismet_http_post($request, $host, $path, $port = 80) { _ global $wp_version; // $http_request = "POST $path HTTP/1.0rn"; // $http_request .= "Host: $hostrn"; $http_request = "POST http://$host$path HTTP/1.0rn"; $http_request .= "Host: http://$hostrn"; $http_request .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; _ charset=" . get_option('blog_charset') . "rn"; $http_request .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($request) . "rn"; $http_request .= 'Proxy-Authorization: ' . 'Basic ' . base64_encode_ 'username:password')."rn"; $http_request .= "User-Agent: WordPress/$wp_version | Akismet/2.0rn"; $http_request .= "rn"; $http_request .= $request; $response = ''; // if( false != ( $fs = @fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10) ) ) { if( false !== ( $fs = @fsockopen('your_proxy_address', your_proxy_port, _ $errno, $errstr, 10) ) ) { fwrite($fs, $http_request); while ( !feof($fs) ) $response .= fgets($fs, 1160); // One TCP-IP packet fclose($fs); $response = explode("rnrn", $response, 2); } return $response; }
Hi Dr Alan,
Thank you so much for this, I was able to hack the akismet code and get it to work behind our firewall (using our proxy) thank you so much!
Cheers,
Mandy
Thanks for posting this code. I am running WordPress 3.0 and Akismet v2.2.9. I was curious if you may have a code update that would work with this? The server that hosts our site is not directly connected to the Internet.
Thanks a lot! This helped a lot!
your code is effective but if we use a configuration instead of this isn’t it good.?