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I'm moving our stuff to a new server and a different hosts.  Copied things over and installed.  I noticed that the dashboard blog civicrm news feed wasn't getting updated.  I don't really care about the blog but something not working bothers me.

After considerable hacking, I discovered the php that was installed was missing curl.  A sudo apt-get install php5-curl fixed it

The annoying thing is the basic civi install script doesn't check for php curl.  I suspect it's only used for the blog, but it's an easy check  if (!function_exists('curl_init')) {

Even more annoying is that there were zero error messages as why the blog wasn't getting updated.  Buried down in sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Utils/HttpClient.php there is code to have it actually fail with a decent message but it's commented out.  The code as it stands (4.4.6) passes a bland generic status that doesn't get report out.  There is a FIXME note at the top of the file noting error reporting inconsistencies.

I suppose these might both be bugs and I should figure out how to log a bug.

I wasn't trying to complain without being constructive.  I partially posted this so others coming across the same problem might find an answer.

And I am sorry and I don't want to argue but the user friendly error message for the get function is commented out in 4.4.6 code, which I believe is the current release.  Had it not been, I wouldn't have posted anything.   (The fetch does give a user friendly message but unfortunately, the blog thing uses the get)

It looks like it is fixed in 4.5 so this is all moot, well, I guess except for people installing before it is released and wonder why the blog thing doesn't work.