On 08/14/2010 08:39 PM, nitin gupta wrote:

Hi,

I recently came across this issue when drupal_http_request reported error (-1002 - missing schema) for the following URL:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/variety/news/film/~3/ksODaiUYe-U/VR1118022938

This URL redirects twice. For the first time, it returns the location: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118022938?categoryid=3762&cs=1&nid=2564&ut...

with 302 code.

This URL when requested returns the Location: /article/VR1118022938.html?categoryid=3762&cs=1&nid=2564&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fnews%2Ffilm+%28Variety+-+Film+News%29

with 302 code.

As the drupal_http_request requests the location, a missing schema error is reported. Whereas the browser, and the following test site: http://www.rexswain.com/cgi-bin/httpview.cgi, correctly returns the content of the page.

Is drupal_http_request missing some recommended functionality?

-- Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog/

drupal_http_request is not missing any standard functionality; it expects the location field to contain an absolute URI and that is what the standard specifies. However, this is a frequently encountered quirk, and a workaround might do some good there. From the HTTP/1.1 RFC: Location: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30 The Location response-header field is used to redirect the recipient to a location other than the Request-URI for completion of the request or identification of a new resource. [...] *The field value consists of a single absolute URI.* Location = "Location" ":" absoluteURI An example is: Location: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People.html -- Arancaytar XMPP: arancaytar.ilyaran@gmail.com / ICQ: 282026638 / AIM: arancaytar42