Send a WordPress Auth Cookie with HTTP API Requests

This snippet I created lets you hit your site with a remote request that includes your current auth cookie. I use this to circumvent caching plugins that use output buffering when I need to store a page load for analysis.

<?php #Set your current WP install URL $url = 'http://currentwpinstall.com'; #Create cookie string $cookie_string = ''; foreach($_COOKIE as $k => $v) #Assure we are setting the proper string if other cookies are set if(preg_match('/(wordpress_test_cookie|wordpress_logged_in_|wp-settings-1|wp-settings-time-1)/', $k)) $cookie_string .= $k . '=' . urlencode($v) . '; '; #Remove stray delimiters $cookie_string = trim($cookie_string, '; '); #Prep headers $headers = array( 'Cookie' => $cookie_string ); #Make Request $http = new WP_Http; $response = $http->request($url, array('method' => 'GET', 'headers' => $headers)); #Retrieve Body $body = wp_remote_retrieve_body($response);

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