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Soundcloud blocking cURL requests, switch to drupal_http_request?

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Created on 20 September 2023, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

The Soundcloud oEmbed endpoint is blocking cURL requests from Drupal. This has been an intermittent issue and is being reported by other users: https://github.com/soundcloud/api/issues/256. On Pantheon and locally with Lando, using 7.x-1.x-dev, I am getting responses like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<TITLE>ERROR: The request could not be satisfied</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>403 ERROR</H1>
<H2>The request could not be satisfied.</H2>
<HR noshade size="1px">
Request blocked.
We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
<BR clear="all">
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
<BR clear="all">
<HR noshade size="1px">
<PRE>
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: 7GHXB30gC0T6LKW9-Q55MBFYbkzi2EW7SE3M256i3N2M283C853lyw==
</PRE>
<ADDRESS>
</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>

Steps to reproduce

Using current code, check the output of $soundcloud_curl_get in soundcloudfield_field_formatter_view() and see that it is returning errors like above.

Proposed resolution

For whatever reason, changing soundcloud_curl_get() to use drupal_http_request() fixes the issue.

🐛 Bug report
Status

Needs review

Version

1.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇺🇸United States vinmassaro

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Comments & Activities

  • Issue created by @vinmassaro
  • @vinmassaro opened merge request.
  • Status changed to Needs review about 1 year ago
  • Comment about 1 year ago →
    🇺🇸United States vinmassaro

    Here is an MR that replaces soundcloudfield_curl_get() with soundcloudfield_request() and uses drupal_http_request(). I removed all of the proxy behavior because I believe drupal_http_request() handles this automatically if the variables are set.

    Prior to this change, embeds were not appearing on the page for me. After this MR, I can again see an embed, but it is broken with the error "You have not provided a valid SoundCloud URL." This is a new issue where the markup transformations happening in soundcloudfield_field_formatter_view() seem to be sending the wrong $url parameter to the embed and the issue impacts 7.x and 2.0.x. I will open a separate issue for this.

    Thank you!

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