[php5 0005164]: http wrapper not found

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The following issue has been ASSIGNED. 
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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5164 
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Reported By:                ace808
Assigned To:                dam
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Project:                    php5
Issue ID:                   5164
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2014-04-15 23:43 CEST
Last Modified:              2014-04-15 23:46 CEST
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Summary:                    http wrapper not found
Description: 
Trying to use composer to update php libraries yeilds an error: 
Unable to find the wrapper "http" - did you forget to enable it when you
configured PHP?

Executing var_dump(stream_get_wrappers()); yeilds

array(10) {
  [0]=>
  string(13) "compress.zlib"
  [1]=>
  string(14) "compress.bzip2"
  [2]=>
  string(5) "https"
  [3]=>
  string(4) "ftps"
  [4]=>
  string(3) "php"
  [5]=>
  string(4) "file"
  [6]=>
  string(4) "glob"
  [7]=>
  string(4) "data"
  [8]=>
  string(3) "zip"
  [9]=>
  string(4) "phar"
}

There's no http wrapper.  Is there some sort of way to add it?
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