diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index f03a5be20f..b55c3198bc 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 set_time_limit(0);
 
-define ( 'BUILD_ID',               1018   );
+define ( 'BUILD_ID',               1019   );
 define ( 'DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION',  '2.0'  );
 
 define ( 'EOL',                    "<br />\r\n"     );
@@ -378,8 +378,7 @@ function fetch_url($url,$binary = false, &$redirects = 0) {
 
 
 	$curl_time = intval(get_config('system','curl_timeout'));
-	if($curl_time)
-		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $curl_time);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, (($curl_time !== false) ? $curl_time : 60));
 
 	// by default we will allow self-signed certs
 	// but you can override this
@@ -400,7 +399,7 @@ function fetch_url($url,$binary = false, &$redirects = 0) {
 
 	$s = curl_exec($ch);
 
-	$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+	$http_code = intval(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE));
 	$header = substr($s,0,strpos($s,"\r\n\r\n"));
 	if(stristr($header,'100') && (strlen($header) < 30)) {
 		// 100 Continue has two headers, get the real one
@@ -440,8 +439,7 @@ function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0) {
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$params);
 
 	$curl_time = intval(get_config('system','curl_timeout'));
-	if($curl_time)
-		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $curl_time);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, (($curl_time !== false) ? $curl_time : 60));
 
 	if(is_array($headers))
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
@@ -459,7 +457,7 @@ function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0) {
 
 	$s = curl_exec($ch);
 
-	$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+	$http_code = intval(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE));
 	$header = substr($s,0,strpos($s,"\r\n\r\n"));
 	if(stristr($header,'100') && (strlen($header) < 30)) {
 		// 100 Continue has two headers, get the real one
diff --git a/database.sql b/database.sql
index a0b121b0a6..ea1523e289 100644
--- a/database.sql
+++ b/database.sql
@@ -408,3 +408,10 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `auth_codes` (
 PRIMARY KEY ( `id` )
 ) ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
 
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `queue` (
+`id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
+`cid` INT NOT NULL ,
+`created` DATETIME NOT NULL ,
+`last` DATETIME NOT NULL ,
+`content` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL
+) ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index 584236f780..b5e901c911 100644
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -710,7 +710,10 @@ function dfrn_deliver($owner,$contact,$atom) {
 
 	$xml = post_url($contact['notify'],$postvars);
 
-	logger('dfrn_deliver: ' . "SENDING: " . print_r($postvars,true) . "\n" . "RECEIVING: " . $xml);
+	logger('dfrn_deliver: ' . "SENDING: " . print_r($postvars,true) . "\n" . "RECEIVING: " . $xml, LOGGER_DATA);
+
+	if(! strlen($xml))
+		return(-1);
 
 	$res = simplexml_load_string($xml);
 
diff --git a/include/notifier.php b/include/notifier.php
index f22917e4ff..bbc4f00474 100644
--- a/include/notifier.php
+++ b/include/notifier.php
@@ -255,10 +255,24 @@
 			case 'dfrn':
 				logger('notifier: dfrndelivery: ' . $contact['name']);
 				$deliver_status = dfrn_deliver($owner,$contact,$atom);
+
+				if($deliver_status == (-1)) {
+					// queue message for redelivery
+
+				}
+
 				break;
 			default:
 				if($followup && $contact['notify']) {
-					slapper($owner,$contact['notify'],$slap);
+					logger('notifier: slapdelivery: ' . $contact['name']);
+					$deliver_status = slapper($owner,$contact['notify'],$slap);
+
+					if($deliver_status == (-1)) {
+						// queue message for redelivery
+
+					}
+
+
 				}
 				else {
 
@@ -269,7 +283,13 @@
 						logger('notifier: slapdelivery: ' . $contact['name']);
 						foreach($slaps as $slappy) {
 							if($contact['notify']) {
-								slapper($owner,$contact['notify'],$slappy);
+								$deliver_status = slapper($owner,$contact['notify'],$slappy);
+								if($deliver_status == (-1)) {
+									// queue message for redelivery
+									// if not already in queue
+									// else if deliver_status ok and queued, remove from queue
+									
+								}
 							}
 						}
 					}
@@ -277,6 +297,7 @@
 				break;
 		}
 
+
 		if(($cmd === 'mail') && ($deliver_status == 0)) {
 			$r = q("UPDATE `mail` SET `delivered` = 1 WHERE `id` = %d LIMIT 1",
 				intval($item_id)
@@ -292,7 +313,7 @@
 			logger('notifier: urldelivery: ' . $url);
 			foreach($slaps as $slappy) {
 				if($url) {
-					slapper($owner,$url,$slappy);
+					$deliver_status = slapper($owner,$url,$slappy);
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/include/salmon.php b/include/salmon.php
index a12b7391e0..85bda1c8f3 100644
--- a/include/salmon.php
+++ b/include/salmon.php
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ EOT;
 
 	}
 	logger('slapper returned ' . $return_code); 
-	return;
+	if(! $return_code)
+		return(-1);
+	return ((substr($return_code,0,1) === '2') ? 0 : 1);
 }
 
diff --git a/mod/install.php b/mod/install.php
index 7f150ef1dc..cbe3b2fc9b 100644
--- a/mod/install.php
+++ b/mod/install.php
@@ -173,6 +173,6 @@ function load_database($db) {
 				$errors ++;
 			}
 		}
-        }
+	}
 	return $errors;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/update.php b/update.php
index c4995604e7..57020966ff 100644
--- a/update.php
+++ b/update.php
@@ -167,3 +167,12 @@ PRIMARY KEY ( `id` )
 
 }
 
+function update_1018() {
+	q("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `queue` (
+`id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
+`cid` INT NOT NULL ,
+`created` DATETIME NOT NULL ,
+`last` DATETIME NOT NULL ,
+`content` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL
+) ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ");
+}