This is a protest plugin in response to the unacceptable behavior of Matt Mullenweg (BDFL of WordPress). In a propaganda interview, Matt claimed that one of the unacceptable things that WPEngine did was to strip out the stripe partner id from woocommerce's stripe gateway plugin. Not only does this appear to be false, but it is in no way a violat…

bad-matt.php

<?php defined('ABSPATH') or die();
/*
 * Plugin Name:       Bad Matt
 * Plugin URI:        https://gschoppe.com
 * Description:       A protest plugin that removes (or replaces via filter) the Automattic-owned woocommerce stripe gateway partner id.
 * Version:           1.0.0
 * Requires at least: 4.0
 * Requires PHP:      7.2
 * Author:            Greg Schoppe
 * Author URI:        https://gschoppe.com/
 * License:           GPL v2 or later
 * License URI:       https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 * Requires Plugins:  woocommerce, woocommerce-gateway-stripe
 */

add_filter( 'http_request_args', function( $args, $url ) {
  $stripe_api = "api.stripe.com";
  $host = parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_HOST );
  if( $host == $stripe_api ) {
    $headers = $args['headers'];
    // Set app info
    $app_info = [
      'name'       => get_bloginfo( 'name' ) . ' Stripe Gateway',
      'version'    => '1.0.0',
      'url'        => get_bloginfo( 'url' ),
      'partner_id' => apply_filters( 'stripe_gateway_partner_id', '', $url ),
    ];
    $app_info = apply_filters( 'stripe_gateway_app_info', $app_info, $url, $headers );
    // Change user agent
    $user_agent = $app_info['name'] . '/' . $app_info['version'] . ' (' . $app_info['url'] . ')';
    $headers['User-Agent'] = apply_filters( 'stripe_gateway_user_agent', $user_agent, $app_info, $url, $headers );
    // Change custom stripe header
    $stripe_header_content = [
      'lang'         => 'php',
      'lang_version' => phpversion(),
      'publisher'    => get_bloginfo( 'admin_email' ),
      'uname'        => function_exists( 'php_uname' ) ? php_uname() : PHP_OS,
      'application'  => $app_info,
    ];
    $stripe_header_content = apply_filters( 'stripe_gateway_client_user_agent', $stripe_header_content, $app_info, $url, $headers );
    $headers['X-Stripe-Client-User-Agent'] = wp_json_encode( $stripe_header_content );
    $args['headers'] = $headers;
  }

  return $args;
}, PHP_INT_MAX, 2 );

Thank you for this.

We should be installing this on every site using Woo. Thanks.

adding this to all my woo powered stores