System.module mistakes d.o. for the web [#535660]

When d.o. is down, some code (update.module ?) fails at accessing it, causing drupal_http_request to record fail by setting drupal_http_request_fails to TRUE.

In turn, this causes system.module to reports a hook_requirements() failure claiming that the site doesn't have access to the web and will be missing functionality, and suggesting a check bypass in settings.php.

This is however an erroneous interpretation of the actual situation, and system.module does not have any information available at that point to known what is really happening.

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Comment #1

apaderno

he/him

Italian

Brescia, 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

CreditAttribution: apaderno commented 30 July 2009 at 15:43

I understand that reporting the site doesn't have access to to Drupal.org can be helpful (the administrator users are advised that their sites cannot get informed when a security update is available); still, the message should be changed, and the code should try to better diagnose the problem.