Http Request Fail Reset

jrglasgow - November 8, 2008 - 06:12

At Tribute Media we have many sites in various stages of development. Sometimes upon returning to them I have noticed that Update Status has not checked for updates for up to 4 weeks. I then notice that the "drupal_http_request_fails" flag is set.

It is my understanding that when the variable "drupal_http_request_fails" is set the only way to get Drupal to re-attempt to make a request if to manually reset the variable. Drupal doesn't even check anymore until I reset the flag.

This module allows the user to configure when to check if the flag is set, and reset the flag. The interval is configurable from 1 minute to days or weeks.

When the interval times out the module checks "drupal_http_request_fails" to see if it is set to TRUE - meaning that no HTTP requests are being attempted - this module will reset the flag and log to the watchdog table. If the variable is set to FALSE - meaning that there is no problems making HTTP requests - it logs this to the watchdog table as well.