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-rw-r--r--CHANGELOG.txt2
-rw-r--r--includes/common.inc7
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index e6c15c9f3..b3f02c5cb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
Drupal 7.22, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
-----------------------
+- Allowed the drupal_http_request() function to be overridden so that
+ additional HTTP request capabilities can be added by contributed modules.
- Changed the Simpletest module to allow PSR-0 test classes to be used in
Drupal 7.
- Removed an unnecessary "Content-Disposition" header from private file
diff --git a/includes/common.inc b/includes/common.inc
index d6fd67eeb..27fa190e0 100644
--- a/includes/common.inc
+++ b/includes/common.inc
@@ -785,6 +785,13 @@ function drupal_access_denied() {
* - data: A string containing the response body that was received.
*/
function drupal_http_request($url, array $options = array()) {
+ // Allow an alternate HTTP client library to replace Drupal's default
+ // implementation.
+ $override_function = variable_get('drupal_http_request_function', FALSE);
+ if (!empty($override_function) && function_exists($override_function)) {
+ return $override_function($url, $options);
+ }
+
$result = new stdClass();
// Parse the URL and make sure we can handle the schema.