diff --git a/wp-includes/http.php b/wp-includes/http.php
index 408fd56e6..e431bd199 100644
--- a/wp-includes/http.php
+++ b/wp-includes/http.php
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ class WP_Http {
 		$arrURL = parse_url($url);
 
 		if ( $this->block_request( $url ) )
-			return new WP_Error('http_request_failed', 'User has blocked requests through HTTP.');
+			return new WP_Error('http_request_failed', __('User has blocked requests through HTTP.'));
 
 		// Determine if this is a https call and pass that on to the transport functions
 		// so that we can blacklist the transports that do not support ssl verification