Title: Suggest to block also https://api.wordpress.org/core/serve-happy/ (php version)
Last modified: May 26, 2019

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# Suggest to block also https://api.wordpress.org/core/serve-happy/ (php version)

 *  Resolved [tiennoub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiennoub/)
 * (@tiennoub)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggest-to-block-also-https-api-wordpress-org-core-serve-happy-php-version/)
 * Hi,
 * Using this plugin that makes the job perfectly – remove calls from server, that
   are blocked by my ISP firewalls.
    This result in wp-admin pages to be very slow.(
   5s or 10s timeouts)
 * However, the wp_check_php_version() issues an API call that is not blocked.
    
   So suggest to also block that API, that is there to warn ADMIN about their PHP
   version.
 * Source off call :
    wp_check_php_version()
 * Target API :
    [https://api.wordpress.org/core/serve-happy/1.0/](https://api.wordpress.org/core/serve-happy/1.0/)
 * Suggest to amend block_request()
    … if( false !== stripos( $host, ‘api.wordpress.
   org’ ) && (false !== stripos( $url_data[‘path’], ‘update-check’ ) || false !=
   = stripos( $url_data[‘path’], ‘browse-happy’ ) || false !== stripos( $url_data[‘
   path’], ‘serve-happy’ )) ) { ….
 * Thanks for the plugin !

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 *  Plugin Author [wpseek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphawolf/)
 * (@alphawolf)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggest-to-block-also-https-api-wordpress-org-core-serve-happy-php-version/#post-11573995)
 * Hi tiennoub,
 * I just released version 1.6.5 that includes your proposed changes.
 * Thank you!

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 * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggest-to-block-also-https-api-wordpress-org-core-serve-happy-php-version/#post-11573995)
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