RSS authentication problem

  • We’re experiencing a problem accessing the RSS feed when the plugin is enabled and the sites visibility is set to visible only for registered users or the administrator.
    When accessing the feed (https://example.com/feed/) through a browser you’re prompted to insert the username and password twice.

    This is a problem when trying to access the feed from curl or with file_get_contents() in PHP.

    I’ve been able to replicate the problem on a clean WordPress installation and below are som header output from curl:

    Without the plugin enabled:

    $ curl -I https://wordpress.domain.dev/feed/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 08:24:02 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
X-Pingback: https://wordpress.domain.dev/xmlrpc.php
Last-Modified: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:04:09 GMT
ETag: "7e7f82da70bcfd2f08ba739248106f1d"
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

    With the plugin enabled and visibility set to registered users or the administrator:

    $ curl -u "admin:password" -I https://wordpress.domain.dev/feed/
HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 08:24:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
X-Pingback: https://wordpress.domain.dev/xmlrpc.php
Last-Modified: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:04:09 GMT
ETag: "7e7f82da70bcfd2f08ba739248106f1d"
Set-Cookie: wordpress_41193cf728d4d7b51d01f6c22f880058=admin%7C1473063853%7ConSnJR8ce7ICpqzCyJKy5BZQYyLazVA5DDguZDwjgaS%7Cf4a0623ef9593e7b3554e77a68787dcc21473eff9eea4bfcaeb6590cfee85889; expires=Mon, 05-Sep-2016 20:24:13 GMT; Max-Age=1252800; path=/wp-content/plugins; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: wordpress_41193cf728d4d7b51d01f6c22f880058=admin%7C1473063853%7ConSnJR8ce7ICpqzCyJKy5BZQYyLazVA5DDguZDwjgaS%7Cf4a0623ef9593e7b3554e77a68787dcc21473eff9eea4bfcaeb6590cfee85889; expires=Mon, 05-Sep-2016 20:24:13 GMT; Max-Age=1252800; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: wordpress_logged_in_41193cf728d4d7b51d01f6c22f880058=admin%7C1473063853%7ConSnJR8ce7ICpqzCyJKy5BZQYyLazVA5DDguZDwjgaS%7C30852dc698dfdfa76729a3b9f0f90a2ac271c19bb09104fcef42d298b6c8921e; expires=Mon, 05-Sep-2016 20:24:13 GMT; Max-Age=1252800; path=/; HttpOnly
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="wordpress.domain.dev"
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

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  • Thread Starter tbjornli

    (@tbjornli)

    The reason for the problem is that get_user_id_from_string has been deprecated.

    Below is a fix that solves this problem.

    352c352
< $user_id = is_wp_error( $user ) ? get_user_id_from_string( $user->user_login ) : null;
---
> $user_id = $user->ID;

    The if/else statement is unnecessary since it’s executed again on the next line of the code.

    $user_id = $user->ID;

if ( is_wp_error( $user ) ||

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