Call internal pages with drupal_http_request

Question

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?

Answer 1

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);