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I'm writing a little module, and I need to call several pages of my site using drupal_http_request(), which accepts only absolute URLs. I don't want to add a variable to store the domain of the site, also because on my company we have proxy etc.

Which is the best way to add the domain of the site?

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  • I'm not quite sure what you mean exactly, but have you looked at global $base_url ? – Beebee Jun 21 '12 at 11:25
  • Hello, and welcome to Drupal Answers. I guess you want the absolute URL of the web server from which you call drupal_http_request(). Is there any reason why you cannot use url('', array('absolute' => TRUE))? Did you try it? – kiamlaluno♦ Jun 21 '12 at 12:37
  • If my page is "page" and I try to run $url = url('page', array('absolute' => TRUE)), $url seems to be http://default/page. – arrubiu Jun 21 '12 at 12:51
  • I can use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] but I don't know if works always.. – arrubiu Jun 21 '12 at 13:09
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Here is what I'm using in a similar situation, with $base_url as Baysaa mentioned above.

$path_to_file = '/path/to/feed.xml';
$base_url = $GLOBALS['base_url']; // Not sure if this line is necessary.
$file_over_http = $base_url . $path_to_file;
$http_result = drupal_http_request($file_over_http);
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    I think you can use GLOBAL $base_url as well. – Citricguy Sep 22 '12 at 3:17

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