Nizz

For people looking for a quick hack, the following patch did the trick for me. I am not a WP hacker, so just replaced the wp function with the php builtin.

Index: wp-filer/link-import.php
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--- wp-filer/link-import.php    (revision 303)
+++ wp-filer/link-import.php    (revision 304)
@@ -97,7 +97,11 @@
                                }

                 if (isset($opml_url) && $opml_url != '') {
-                    $opml = wp_remote_fopen($opml_url);
+                        if (substr($opml_url,0,4) == 'http') {
+                                $opml = wp_remote_fopen($opml_url);
+                        } else {
+                                $opml = file_get_contents ($opml_url);
+                        }
                     include_once('link-parse-opml.php');

                     $link_count = count($names);