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1. muffintop
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I've seen this question posted before but no help was given (for some reason I cannot insert the link to the post?????)

   I am now asking the same, does anyone know of any workarounds to get WP updating and reading in feeds when behind a corporate firewall or using a proxy that requires authentication?
   If we need to create firewall rules then what IP Address do we need to allow?

   Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm sure there are plenty of people out there with this same issue.

   Thanks,

2. hedronist
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I haven't had to deal with this, so the following is based on a quick scan of wp-includes/class-http.php, which supplies the primary method WP uses to access the web.

   That file's proxy section has this comment:
   

   * Please note that only BASIC authentication is supported by most transports.
    * cURL and the PHP HTTP Extension MAY support more methods (such as NTLM authentication) depending on your environment.

   I believe cURL supports other forms of authentication, but it would require a bit of custom code to make use of them, and maybe more than that to add the functionality to the WP core.

3. muffintop
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   Thanks for getting back to me.
   I had since found this http://wpengineer.com/1227/wordpress-proxysupport/
   It enabled to "punch" through our proxy. All feeds and widgets working nicely!

   Thanks,

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