#196535 by sun, chx, dww: check whether Drupal can issue HTTP requests at all, so we know that this is the cause of problems, not the remote host not responding.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/system/system.install b/modules/system/system.install
index c50f01770..e2fdf6382 100644
--- a/modules/system/system.install
+++ b/modules/system/system.install
@@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ function system_requirements($phase) {
       $requirements['update status'] = array(
         'value' => $t('Enabled'),
       );
+      if (variable_get('drupal_http_request_fails', FALSE)) {
+        $requirements['http requests'] = array(
+          'title' => $t('HTTP request status'),
+          'value' => $t('Fails'),
+          'severity' => REQUIREMENT_ERROR,
+          'description' => $t('Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.'),
+        );
+      }
     }
     $requirements['update status']['title'] = $t('Update notifications');
   }