Connecting two sites on development servers

[jouni-salo]

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Hi, I am attempting to set up Distributor between two development sites that both have nginx set up with a basic authentication on top of the usual wordpress logins. Is it possible to do this in this type of an environment? I have tried various methods of creating connections but I suspect the basic auth is preventing the connection.

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[peterwilsoncc]

@jouni-salo You might be able to use the WordPress http_request_args filter to add an authorization header to the requests:

add_filter( 'http_request_args', function( $args, $url ) {
	if ( str_contains( $url, '//xu-distributor.local/' ) ) {
		$username = 'admin';
		$password = 'password';
		$auth = base64_encode( "$username:$password" );
		$args['headers']['Authorization'] = "Basic $auth";
	}

	return $args;
}, 10, 2 );

You'd need to place this in the mu-plugins folder to ensure it runs prior to Distributor.

Unfortunately I don't have such an environment set up locally so I haven't been able to confirm this code works.