#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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/update/update.fetch.inc b/modules/update/update.fetch.inc
index a79e71c3a..4ecdbc235 100644
--- a/modules/update/update.fetch.inc
+++ b/modules/update/update.fetch.inc
@@ -42,12 +42,15 @@ function _update_refresh() {
   if ($data) {
     $parser = new update_xml_parser;
     $available = $parser->parse($data);
+  }
+  if (!empty($available) && is_array($available)) {
     $frequency = variable_get('update_check_frequency', 1);
     cache_set('update_info', $available, 'cache_update', time() + (60 * 60 * 24 * $frequency));
     variable_set('update_last_check', time());
     watchdog('update', 'Fetched information about all available new releases and updates.', array(), WATCHDOG_NOTICE, l('view', 'admin/reports/updates'));
   }
   else {
+    module_invoke('system', 'check_http_request');
     watchdog('update', 'Unable to fetch any information about available new releases and updates.', array(), WATCHDOG_ERROR, l('view', 'admin/reports/updates'));
   }
   return $available;