diff --git a/main/admin/index.php b/main/admin/index.php
index 24a96be364..d926100f87 100644
--- a/main/admin/index.php
+++ b/main/admin/index.php
@@ -358,8 +358,9 @@ function version_check() {
         $return .= '<label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="donotlistcampus" value="1" id="checkbox" />'.get_lang('HideCampusFromPublicPlatformsList');
         $return .= '</label><button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" name="Register" value="'.get_lang('EnableVersionCheck').'" id="register" >'.get_lang('EnableVersionCheck').'</button>';
         $return .= '</form>';
+        check_system_version();
     } else {
-        //$return = 'site registered. ';
+        // site not registered. Call anyway
         $return .= check_system_version();
     }
     return $return;
@@ -392,6 +393,7 @@ function register_site() {
  * The code is borrowed from phpBB and slighlty modified
  * @author The phpBB Group <support@phpbb.com> (the code)
  * @author Patrick Cool <patrick.cool@UGent.be>, Ghent University (the modifications)
+ * @author Yannick Warnier <ywarnier@beeznest.org> for the move to HTTP request
  * @copyright (C) 2001 The phpBB Group
  * @return language string with some layout (color)
  */
@@ -406,10 +408,23 @@ function check_system_version() {
         // The number of users
         $number_of_users = statistics::count_users();
 
-        $version_url = 'http://version.chamilo.org/version.php?url='.urlencode(api_get_path(WEB_PATH)).'&campus='.urlencode(api_get_setting('siteName')).'&contact='.urlencode(api_get_setting('emailAdministrator')).'&version='.urlencode($system_version).'&numberofcourses='.urlencode($number_of_courses).'&numberofusers='.urlencode($number_of_users).'&donotlistcampus='.api_get_setting('donotlistcampus').'&organisation='.urlencode(api_get_setting('Institution')).'&language='.api_get_setting('platformLanguage').'&adminname='.urlencode(api_get_setting('administratorName').' '.api_get_setting('administratorSurname'));
-        $handle = @fopen($version_url, 'r');
-        if ($handle !== false) {
-            $version_info = trim(@fread($handle, 1024));
+        $data = array(
+            'url' => api_get_path(WEB_PATH),
+            'campus' => api_get_setting('siteName'),
+            'contact' => api_get_setting('emailAdministrator'),
+            'version' => $system_version,
+            'numberofcourses' => $number_of_courses,
+            'numberofusers' => $number_of_users,
+            'donotlistcampus' => api_get_setting('donotlistcampus'),
+            'organisation' => api_get_setting('Institution'),
+            'language' => api_get_setting('platformLanguage'),
+            'adminname' => api_get_setting('administratorName').' '.api_get_setting('administratorSurname'),
+        );
+
+        $res = http_request('version.chamilo.org', 80, '/version.php', $data); 
+        
+        if ($res !== false) {
+            $version_info = $res;
 
             if ($system_version != $version_info) {
                 $output = '<br /><span style="color:red">' . get_lang('YourVersionNotUpToDate') . '. '.get_lang('LatestVersionIs').' <b>Chamilo '.$version_info.'</b>. '.get_lang('YourVersionIs').' <b>Chamilo '.$system_version. '</b>. '.str_replace('http://www.chamilo.org', '<a href="http://www.chamilo.org">http://www.chamilo.org</a>', get_lang('PleaseVisitOurWebsite')).'</span>';
@@ -424,3 +439,52 @@ function check_system_version() {
     }
     return $output;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Function to make an HTTP request through fsockopen (specialised for GET)
+ * Derived from Jeremy Saintot: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php#101872
+ * @param string IP or hostname
+ * @param int    Target port
+ * @param string URI (defaults to '/')
+ * @param array  GET data
+ * @param float  Timeout
+ * @param bool   Include HTTP Request headers?
+ * @param bool   Include HTTP Response headers?
+ */
+function http_request($ip, $port = 80, $uri = '/', $getdata = array(), $timeout = 1, $req_hdr = false, $res_hdr = false) {
+    $verb = 'GET';
+    $ret = '';
+    $getdata_str = count($getdata) ? '?' : '';
+
+    foreach ($getdata as $k => $v) {
+                $getdata_str .= urlencode($k) .'='. urlencode($v) . '&';
+    }
+
+    $crlf = "\r\n";
+    $req = $verb .' '. $uri . $getdata_str .' HTTP/1.1' . $crlf;
+    $req .= 'Host: '. $ip . $crlf;
+    $req .= 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Firefox/3.6.12' . $crlf;
+    $req .= 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' . $crlf;
+    $req .= 'Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5' . $crlf;
+    $req .= 'Accept-Encoding: deflate' . $crlf;
+    $req .= 'Accept-Charset: utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7' . $crlf;
+   
+    $req .= $crlf;
+   
+    if ($req_hdr) { $ret .= $req; }
+    if (($fp = @fsockopen($ip, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout)) == false) {
+        return "Error $errno: $errstr\n";
+    }
+   
+    stream_set_timeout($fp, $timeout);
+    $r = @fwrite($fp, $req);
+    $line = @fread($fp,512);
+    $ret .= $line; 
+    fclose($fp);
+   
+    if (!$res_hdr) {
+        $ret = substr($ret, strpos($ret, "\r\n\r\n") + 4);
+    }
+   
+    return trim($ret);
+}