not a valid cURL handle resource in Unknown

[Andre]

Hi,
I had cURL suddenly running great on another site (same server) just through clicking on it under plugin firewall. So on a new developed site I tested it also, but there it doesnt work.
And somehow now the cURL scan seems to slow down the site. Might it still be running?

Moving in the admin area is very slow and I had PHP errors like this one:

[14-Dec-2013 13:58:40 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning: (null)(): 418 is not a valid cURL handle resource in Unknown on line 0

[AITpro Admin]

Possible cause of the not a valid cURL handle resource in Unknown error:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2080230/php-curl-warning-during-curl-multi-add-handle

The issue was caused by URLs with unencoded spaces, for example: http://example.com/space here/. I resolved the issue by replacing any plain space with %20, like so: http://example.com/space%20here/

From other reading online, it seems like this error can occur for any reason that makes the URL inaccessible or otherwise malformed.

Whatever 418 is, which is most likely a Post or Page has something in it that is seen as an invalid resource/URL.

The cURL scanner will run when you click the Scan button.  It will not run at any other time since the condition is a standard Form isset condition.  So no it should not still be running.

[Andre]

The slow handling also occurs on other sites… also one without BPS running.
Sorry, for being late with this info.

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