jcwatson11

I successfully installed WordPress 2.6.2 behind a firewall and was able to modify some core WordPress code to enable proxy functionality. This fixed the dashboard page panels so they load immediately now. However, the plugins.php page still takes about 30 seconds to load. I don’t know if that’s a function of how many plugins we have installed or whether there is a place I missed in the code.

Note the last file patched in the code below is your wp-config.php file in WordPress’ root folder. Edit this file after you install the patch to add your proxy settings toward the bottom.

Here’s my patch. I hope it helps.

--- wp-includes/update.php.orig	2008-10-18 11:09:35.000000000 -0700
+++ wp-includes/update.php	2008-10-18 11:39:12.000000000 -0700
@@ -46,7 +46,12 @@
 	$http_request .= "\r\n";

 	$response = '';
-	if ( false !== ( $fs = @fsockopen( 'api.wordpress.org', 80, $errno, $errstr, 3 ) ) && is_resource($fs) ) {
+	if(PROXY_HOST) {
+		$fs = @fsockopen( PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT, $errno, $errstr, 3);
+	} else {
+		$fs = @fsockopen( 'api.wordpress.org', 80, $errno, $errstr, 3 );
+	}
+	if ( false !== $fs && is_resource($fs) ) {
 		fwrite( $fs, $http_request );
 		while ( !feof( $fs ) )
 			$response .= fgets( $fs, 1160 ); // One TCP-IP packet
@@ -139,7 +144,12 @@
 	$http_request .= $request;

 	$response = '';
-	if( false != ( $fs = @fsockopen( 'api.wordpress.org', 80, $errno, $errstr, 3) ) && is_resource($fs) ) {
+	if(PROXY_HOST) {
+		$fs = @fsockopen( PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT, $errno, $errstr, 3);
+	} else {
+		$fs = @fsockopen( 'api.wordpress.org', 80, $errno, $errstr, 3 );
+	}
+	if ( false !== $fs && is_resource($fs) ) {
 		fwrite($fs, $http_request);

 		while ( !feof($fs) )
--- wp-includes/functions.php.orig	2008-10-18 11:33:05.000000000 -0700
+++ wp-includes/functions.php	2008-10-18 12:43:27.000000000 -0700
@@ -834,9 +834,14 @@
 	else
 		$request_type = 'HEAD';

-	$head = "$request_type $file HTTP/1.1\r\nHOST: $host\r\nUser-Agent: WordPress/" . $wp_version . "\r\n\r\n";
+	$head = "$request_type $file HTTP/1.1\r\nHOST: $host\r\nPORT: {$parts['port']}\r\nUser-Agent: WordPress/" . $wp_version . "\r\n\r\n";

-	$fp = @fsockopen( $host, $parts['port'], $err_num, $err_msg, 3 );
+	if(PROXY_HOST) {
+		$fp = @fsockopen( PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT, $err_num, $err_msg, 3);
+	} else {
+		$fp = @fsockopen( $host, $parts['port'], $err_num, $err_msg, 3 );
+	}
+	//$fp = @fsockopen( $host, $parts['port'], $err_num, $err_msg, 3 );
 	if ( !$fp )
 		return false;

@@ -1097,6 +1102,10 @@
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1 );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
+		if(PROXY_HOST) {
+			$proxy_host = PROXY_HOST . ( (PROXY_PORT) ? ':'.PROXY_PORT:'' );
+			curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy_host );
+		}
 		$buffer = curl_exec( $handle );
 		curl_close( $handle );
 		return $buffer;
--- wp-config.php.orig	2008-10-18 12:47:28.000000000 -0700
+++ wp-config.php	2008-10-18 12:51:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -22,5 +22,8 @@
 /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

 define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
+/* define proxy settings here */
+define('PROXY_HOST', 'myproxy.server.com'); // replace with your proxy server.
+define('PROXY_PORT', '8080'); // replace with your proxy port number
 require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
 ?>

Note: You may want to update wp-includes/class-snoopy.php to enable proxy support also. To do this, you would need to change the following lines to include your proxy settings.

var $proxy_host	= ""; // proxy host to use
var $proxy_port = ""; // proxy port to use

These lines are found in my 2.6.2 install on lines 54 and 55.