download_url() WordPress Function
The download_url() function is a core WordPress function that allows you to download a URL to a local temporary file. This is useful when you need to download a file from a remote server and don't want to download it to your server first.
download_url( string $url, int $timeout = 300, bool $signature_verification = false ) #
Downloads a URL to a local temporary file using the WordPress HTTP API.
Description
Please note that the calling function must unlink() the file.
Parameters
- $url
(string)(Required)The URL of the file to download.
- $timeout
(int)(Optional)The timeout for the request to download the file. Default 300 seconds.
Default value: 300
- $signature_verification
(bool)(Optional)Whether to perform Signature Verification.
Default value: false
Return
Source
File: wp-admin/includes/file.php
function download_url( $url, $timeout = 300, $signature_verification = false ) { // WARNING: The file is not automatically deleted, the script must unlink() the file. if ( ! $url ) { return new WP_Error( 'http_no_url', __( 'Invalid URL Provided.' ) ); } $url_path = parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_PATH ); $url_filename = ''; if ( is_string( $url_path ) && '' !== $url_path ) { $url_filename = basename( $url_path ); } $tmpfname = wp_tempnam( $url_filename ); if ( ! $tmpfname ) { return new WP_Error( 'http_no_file', __( 'Could not create temporary file.' ) ); } $response = wp_safe_remote_get( $url, array( 'timeout' => $timeout, 'stream' => true, 'filename' => $tmpfname, ) ); if ( is_wp_error( $response ) ) { unlink( $tmpfname ); return $response; } $response_code = wp_remote_retrieve_response_code( $response ); if ( 200 !== $response_code ) { $data = array( 'code' => $response_code, ); // Retrieve a sample of the response body for debugging purposes. $tmpf = fopen( $tmpfname, 'rb' ); if ( $tmpf ) { /** * Filters the maximum error response body size in `download_url()`. * * @since 5.1.0 * * @see download_url() * * @param int $size The maximum error response body size. Default 1 KB. */ $response_size = apply_filters( 'download_url_error_max_body_size', KB_IN_BYTES ); $data['body'] = fread( $tmpf, $response_size ); fclose( $tmpf ); } unlink( $tmpfname ); return new WP_Error( 'http_404', trim( wp_remote_retrieve_response_message( $response ) ), $data ); } $content_disposition = wp_remote_retrieve_header( $response, 'content-disposition' ); if ( $content_disposition ) { $content_disposition = strtolower( $content_disposition ); if ( 0 === strpos( $content_disposition, 'attachment; filename=' ) ) { $tmpfname_disposition = sanitize_file_name( substr( $content_disposition, 21 ) ); } else { $tmpfname_disposition = ''; } // Potential file name must be valid string. if ( $tmpfname_disposition && is_string( $tmpfname_disposition ) && ( 0 === validate_file( $tmpfname_disposition ) ) ) { $tmpfname_disposition = dirname( $tmpfname ) . '/' . $tmpfname_disposition; if ( rename( $tmpfname, $tmpfname_disposition ) ) { $tmpfname = $tmpfname_disposition; } if ( ( $tmpfname !== $tmpfname_disposition ) && file_exists( $tmpfname_disposition ) ) { unlink( $tmpfname_disposition ); } } } $content_md5 = wp_remote_retrieve_header( $response, 'content-md5' ); if ( $content_md5 ) { $md5_check = verify_file_md5( $tmpfname, $content_md5 ); if ( is_wp_error( $md5_check ) ) { unlink( $tmpfname ); return $md5_check; } } // If the caller expects signature verification to occur, check to see if this URL supports it. if ( $signature_verification ) { /** * Filters the list of hosts which should have Signature Verification attempted on. * * @since 5.2.0 * * @param string[] $hostnames List of hostnames. */ $signed_hostnames = apply_filters( 'wp_signature_hosts', array( 'wordpress.org', 'downloads.wordpress.org', 's.w.org' ) ); $signature_verification = in_array( parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_HOST ), $signed_hostnames, true ); } // Perform signature valiation if supported. if ( $signature_verification ) { $signature = wp_remote_retrieve_header( $response, 'x-content-signature' ); if ( ! $signature ) { // Retrieve signatures from a file if the header wasn't included. // WordPress.org stores signatures at $package_url.sig. $signature_url = false; if ( is_string( $url_path ) && ( '.zip' === substr( $url_path, -4 ) || '.tar.gz' === substr( $url_path, -7 ) ) ) { $signature_url = str_replace( $url_path, $url_path . '.sig', $url ); } /** * Filters the URL where the signature for a file is located. * * @since 5.2.0 * * @param false|string $signature_url The URL where signatures can be found for a file, or false if none are known. * @param string $url The URL being verified. */ $signature_url = apply_filters( 'wp_signature_url', $signature_url, $url ); if ( $signature_url ) { $signature_request = wp_safe_remote_get( $signature_url, array( 'limit_response_size' => 10 * KB_IN_BYTES, // 10KB should be large enough for quite a few signatures. ) ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $signature_request ) && 200 === wp_remote_retrieve_response_code( $signature_request ) ) { $signature = explode( "\n", wp_remote_retrieve_body( $signature_request ) ); } } } // Perform the checks. $signature_verification = verify_file_signature( $tmpfname, $signature, $url_filename ); } if ( is_wp_error( $signature_verification ) ) { if ( /** * Filters whether Signature Verification failures should be allowed to soft fail. * * WARNING: This may be removed from a future release. * * @since 5.2.0 * * @param bool $signature_softfail If a softfail is allowed. * @param string $url The url being accessed. */ apply_filters( 'wp_signature_softfail', true, $url ) ) { $signature_verification->add_data( $tmpfname, 'softfail-filename' ); } else { // Hard-fail. unlink( $tmpfname ); } return $signature_verification; } return $tmpfname; }
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Changelog
Version | Description |
---|---|
5.9.0 | Support for Content-Disposition filename was added. |
5.2.0 | Signature Verification with SoftFail was added. |
2.5.0 | Introduced. |