Prevent loopback tests

  • 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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