• Every visit to the WP admin area fires a loopback test – especially visiting the ‘health check’ page. I know this is needed for the health check – but because it fires so often, it’s triggering rate limiting for many hosts.
    Once the rate limit is triggered – health check reports REST API errors, and updates/validations trigger CURL errors – when the error was caused by the error check itself!
    Is there any way to prevent the ‘test loopbacks’… I know the site is fine – but with the latest WP versions suddenly I’m getting loads of issues, because if I work on the site, it uses my ‘loopback limit’ – and then I get curl/rest errors.
    Thanks

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  • I asked the developer of the Site Health code. Here’s his reply.

    Marius Jensen said:

    Visiting the health check page will fire a loopback test, yes
    It should only be firing on the health check page though, unless the user is on an old version because I know there was a bug in 5.2-beta2 where it would fire off the test as well on the dashboard

    Thread Starter digitalsmithy

    (@digitalsmithy)

    Thanks @joyously
    I’ve fed that back to my hosts. Now just to sit in the middle while each blames the other and hope something get fixed eventually!!
    It’s just like politics 😀

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