[development] Redirection issue with drupal_http_request

[nitin gupta]

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&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fnews%2Ffilm+%28Variety+-+Film+News%29

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?

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