HTTP request status Fails

Posted by jessmagz on November 22, 2008 at 7:26am

hi!

I got this status message: HTTP request status: Fails
What's the cause for this? I just browsed my site to check for updates.
When I browsed the error logs i found a PHP error like this:

parse_url(http:///admin/reports/request-test) [<a href='function.parse-url'>function.parse-url</a>]: Unable to parse URL in /home1/sanfranc/public_html/includes/common.inc on line 436.

After the error above occurred, I got this status report warning:
HTTP request status Fails

Please advise me on how to correct this problem. The site is under construction and it is hosted in a remote server. I just set it to "OFF-LINE MODE" because it is still under design and content construction.

Thanks. Your help is much appreciated.

Comments

a question

Posted by mrgoltra on November 22, 2008 at 7:59am

Is this a fresh install of Drupal 6 or did you upgrade from 5

this is a fresh install

Posted by jessmagz on November 22, 2008 at 8:21am

Sir,

This is a fresh install of D6. This site is running for almost 2 months now but it under construction yet so I placed it in OFF-LINE Status. It is just today that I got this error. I did not do any configuration thing today.

Math Resource Center

take a look here

Posted by mrgoltra on November 22, 2008 at 8:17am

http://drupal.org/node/227791

I was getting this and here is what I did to fix it.

Change your site's status and go online and run cron. Check your status and take site offline.

Good Luck

how about this one

Posted by mrgoltra on December 1, 2008 at 9:06pm

http://drupal.org/project/http_request_fail_reset

thanks!

Posted by jessmagz on December 2, 2008 at 5:07am

thanks! It resolved the problem!

http://sanfranciscomirror.com/

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Thank you, thank you, thank

Posted by NigelFK on December 4, 2008 at 5:20pm

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

This has been bugging me for weeks.

Regards,
Nigel

Sanity Saver

Posted by acarback on January 11, 2009 at 11:30pm

Many Thanks!

Many Thanks,
Alice Carback

I got this status message:

Posted by Aleksic on January 31, 2009 at 9:36am

I got this status message: HTTP request status: Fails
I was just upgrade to 6.9 my host provider didn`t allow HTTP request. So can anyone halp me how to remove error it`s really annoy me.
Many thanks

I didn`t see: module Http

Posted by Aleksic on January 31, 2009 at 7:13pm

I didn`t see: module Http Request Fail Reset
Now it`s fine:)

A smarter drupal_http_request

Posted by mudd on June 9, 2009 at 2:53pm

A smarter drupal_http_request test might make sense.

It seems like drupal tries a test drupal_http_request on itself and if it fails assumes that the environment to get outside pages is not setup. (??)

For me, my apache server is setup with 'SSLVerifyClient require' which causes Drupal maintenance batch functions to fail (unless I somehow figure out how to install an SSL client certificate on the server for the session that httpd spawns)

Would it be possible for Drupal to:

Run scripts locally via actual cron as user apache (this is what I'm doing now for drupal's cron tasks, that someone posted -- it'd be nice to do this for db maintenance tasks, content indexing, user reminders, etc) and run server-side scripts for anything needing immediate execution without using this HTTP GET/POST method to bootstrap the Drupal environment?
Implement a setting for manual vs auto-detection of http_request?

PS, Is there a core database flag that results in a permanent disabled condition as a result of a one time http_request failure? What is this "drupal_http_request_fails" variable and how can I clear it manually?