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Ravi Kaul
Ravi Kaul
1,372 Points
Posted by Ravi Kaul
Ravi Kaul
1,372 Points

How can I get the url from a wp_remote_post request?

So as the title says I'm using wp_remote_post in Wordpress on a plugin. This posts data to a url, which in turns redirects it to another page. This is the page which is being returned in the [body] array.

However, I don't want the page itself, just the [url] for it.

The [url] is displayed in the code within:

[headers] => Requests_Response_Headers Object
                        (
[url] => https://example.com...

But how do I get to it?

3 Answers

Ravi Kaul
Ravi Kaul
1,372 Points
Ravi Kaul
Ravi Kaul
1,372 Points

Hi Jacob

I'm using wp_remote_post so I can't use wp_remote_get.

The actual page content is there - I can see it in $response['body']

But I don't want to get the page content, I actually just want to get the url of the returned response.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

What values are you using in the $args array?

Ravi Kaul
Ravi Kaul
1,372 Points
Ravi Kaul
Ravi Kaul
1,372 Points

$args = array( 'body' => $body, 'timeout' => '5', 'redirection' => '5', 'httpversion' => '1.0', 'blocking' => true, 'headers' => array(), 'cookies' => array() );

where $body is like this

    $body = array(
        'var1[api_key]' => '123abc',
        'var2[id]' => '999',
                    etc...
    );
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Not 100% sure on your set up, but it sounds like you might want to look at wp_remote_get() This can "get" a URL if that is what you want. I hope this helps, if not please post the method you are using.