Add settings for sites behind Basic Authentication

[danielmilner]

It is fairly common for sites that are in development to be behind Basic Authentication. In these instances, WP Cron jobs and Admin Ajax requests will fail. We should add a setting to add the Basic Auth username and password to requests.

[danielmilner]

Code samples for adding Basic Auth to both Admin Ajax and Cron requests.

Admin Ajax

add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'http_request_args_basic_auth', 10, 2 );
function http_request_args_basic_auth( $args, $url ) {
    if ( strpos( $url, admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ) ) === 0 ) {
        $args['headers']['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' . base64_encode( USERNAME . ':' . PASSWORD );
    }
 
    return $args;
}

Cron

add_filter( 'cron_request', 'cron_request_basic_auth' );
function cron_request_basic_auth( $cron_request ) {
    $cron_request['args']['headers']['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' . base64_encode( USERNAME . ':' . PASSWORD );
    return $cron_request;
}