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+<?php
+	/*
+	 * @function get_url
+	 * @purpose To fetch GZipped web content.
+	 * @author Michael Teeuw
+	*/
+	function get_url($url) {
+		/*
+		 * @array
+		 * Prepare the options that we need for our GZip request.
+		*/
+	    $opts = array(
+	        "http" => array(
+	            "method" => "GET",
+	            "header" => "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8rn" . "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdchrn" . "Accept-Charset:UTF-8,*;q=0.5rn" . "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 FirePHP/0.4rn",
+				"ignore_errors" => true
+	        ),
+	        /*
+	         * @array
+	         * Put a Band-Aid over some SSL issues.
+	        */
+			"ssl" => array(
+				"verify_peer" => false,
+				"verify_peer_name" => false
+			)
+	    );
+	    $context = stream_context_create($opts);
+	    $content = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
+	    /*
+	     * @note If http response header mentions that content is gzipped, then uncompress it.
+	    */
+	    foreach($http_response_header as $c => $h) {
+	        if(stristr($h, "content-encoding") and stristr($h, "gzip") {
+	            /*
+	             * @note Now, let's begin the actual purpose of this function:
+	            */
+	            $content = gzinflate(substr($content, 10, -8));
+	        }
+	    }
+	    return $content;
+	}
+?>