Update to MediaWiki 1.17.1

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/includes/HttpFunctions.php b/includes/HttpFunctions.php
index e6124426..3d4d77a9 100644
--- a/includes/HttpFunctions.php
+++ b/includes/HttpFunctions.php
@@ -200,6 +200,15 @@ class MWHttpRequest {
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Simple function to test if we can make any sort of requests at all, using
+	 * cURL or fopen()
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	public static function canMakeRequests() {
+		return function_exists( 'curl_init' ) || wfIniGetBool( 'allow_url_fopen' );
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Generate a new request object
 	 * @see MWHttpRequest::__construct
 	 */