WP_Http::block_request( string $uri )

Source

File: wp-includes/class-http.php

public function block_request( $uri ) {
		// We don't need to block requests, because nothing is blocked.
		if ( ! defined( 'WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL' ) || ! WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL ) {
			return false;
		}

		$check = parse_url( $uri );
		if ( ! $check ) {
			return true;
		}

		$home = parse_url( get_option( 'siteurl' ) );

		// Don't block requests back to ourselves by default.
		if ( 'localhost' === $check['host'] || ( isset( $home['host'] ) && $home['host'] == $check['host'] ) ) {
			/**
			 * Filters whether to block local HTTP API requests.
			 *
			 * A local request is one to `localhost` or to the same host as the site itself.
			 *
			 * @since 2.8.0
			 *
			 * @param bool $block Whether to block local requests. Default false.
			 */
			return apply_filters( 'block_local_requests', false );
		}

		if ( ! defined( 'WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS' ) ) {
			return true;
		}

		static $accessible_hosts = null;
		static $wildcard_regex   = array();
		if ( null === $accessible_hosts ) {
			$accessible_hosts = preg_split( '|,\s*|', WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS );

			if ( false !== strpos( WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS, '*' ) ) {
				$wildcard_regex = array();
				foreach ( $accessible_hosts as $host ) {
					$wildcard_regex[] = str_replace( '\*', '.+', preg_quote( $host, '/' ) );
				}
				$wildcard_regex = '/^(' . implode( '|', $wildcard_regex ) . ')$/i';
			}
		}

		if ( ! empty( $wildcard_regex ) ) {
			return ! preg_match( $wildcard_regex, $check['host'] );
		} else {
			return ! in_array( $check['host'], $accessible_hosts, true ); // Inverse logic, if it's in the array, then don't block it.
		}

	}