Title: WP HTTP Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WP HTTP Error

 *  [muffintop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muffintop/)
 * (@muffintop)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-http-error/)
 * Hi,
 * On my dashboard I have errors related to WP HTTP Error:
 * Wordpres Blog – RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: couldn’t connect to host
    Other WordPress
   news – RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: couldn’t connect to host
 * This is an internal corporate site and not hosted externally.
 * Do I need certain ports opening on our firewall?
 * Thanks,

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 *  [flamenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flamenco/)
 * (@flamenco)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-http-error/#post-1726268)
 * Hi,
    The Dashboard pulls in various material from “outside”. Usually this is 
   nice to see, news, latest bugfixes and stuff. I’m pretty sure that’s all this
   message relates to.
 * But if you can live with the error message, I wouldn’t worry about it. Corporate
   being corporate, though, I realize their might be whining from someone.
 * I wonder if this would allow you to tweak that (I’ve not used it, though)
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/)
 * Good luck, Dave
 *  Thread Starter [muffintop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muffintop/)
 * (@muffintop)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-http-error/#post-1726372)
 * Thanks for the response but being OCD I have to have these working for my sanity.
   Once they’re working, I can then think about turning them off 🙂
 * Anyway, seem to be working this morning but instead of the error messages, they
   now say “This widget requires JavaScript.”
    Surely this is on by default in a
   browser or is it a wordpress thing?
 * Thanks,
 *  [flamenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flamenco/)
 * (@flamenco)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-http-error/#post-1726421)
 * Typically a browser does have Javascript turned on.
 * BUT in a corporate intranet or other mass install, all sorts of restrictions 
   may be there. Maybe someone who preceded you did a mass install with Javascript
   turned off, because of security concerns or the like.
 * There were scads of internal business apps people made for the horrible IE6, 
   for instance. So if these apps become crucial to the business, and they won’t
   work in newer IE or other browsers, they’re permanently stuck in the prehistoric
   era.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [flamenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flamenco/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-http-error/#post-1726421)
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