diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 57c62f7d..06acaead 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Oct 29 18:21:00 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xmlIO.c: fix needed when HTTP is not compiled in by Mark Vakoc
+
 Wed Oct 29 18:05:53 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* xpath.c: more fixes about unregistering objects
diff --git a/xmlIO.c b/xmlIO.c
index 9f2fecb1..9cd16203 100644
--- a/xmlIO.c
+++ b/xmlIO.c
@@ -2188,9 +2188,7 @@ xmlOutputBufferCreateFilename(const char *URI,
     void *context = NULL;
     char *unescaped;
 
-#ifdef LIBXML_HTTP_ENABLED
     int is_http_uri = 0;	/*   Can't change if HTTP disabled  */
-#endif
 
     if (xmlOutputCallbackInitialized == 0)
 	xmlRegisterDefaultOutputCallbacks();