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+<?php
+
+namespace ManiaControl\Files;
+
+use cURL\Request;
+use cURL\Response;
+use ManiaControl\ManiaControl;
+
+/**
+ * Reader Utility Class for efficient Web Requests
+ *
+ * @author    ManiaControl Team <mail@maniacontrol.com>
+ * @copyright 2014 ManiaControl Team
+ * @license   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ GNU General Public License, Version 3
+ */
+abstract class WebReader {
+
+	/**
+	 * Load a URL via GET
+	 *
+	 * @param string   $url
+	 * @param callable $function
+	 * @return Response
+	 */
+	public static function loadUrl($url, callable $function = null) {
+		$request  = static::newRequest($url);
+		$response = $request->send();
+		if (!is_null($function)) {
+			$content = $response->getContent();
+			$error   = $response->getError()
+			                    ->getMessage();
+			call_user_func($function, $content, $error);
+		}
+		return $response;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Create a new cURL Request for the given URL
+	 *
+	 * @param string $url
+	 * @return Request
+	 */
+	protected static function newRequest($url) {
+		$request = new Request($url);
+		$request->getOptions()
+		        ->set(CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10)
+		        ->set(CURLOPT_HEADER, false) // don't display response header
+		        ->set(CURLOPT_CRLF, true) // linux line feed
+		        ->set(CURLOPT_ENCODING, '') // accept encoding
+		        ->set(CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'ManiaControl v' . ManiaControl::VERSION) // user-agent
+		        ->set(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true) // return instead of output content
+		        ->set(CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true); // follow redirects
+		return $request;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Load a URL via POST
+	 *
+	 * @param string   $url
+	 * @param string   $content
+	 * @param callable $function
+	 * @return Response
+	 */
+	public static function postUrl($url, $content = null, callable $function = null) {
+		$request = static::newRequest($url)
+		                 ->set(CURLOPT_POST, true); // post method
+		if ($content) {
+			$request->set(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content); // post content field
+		}
+		$response = $request->send();
+		if (!is_null($function)) {
+			$content = $response->getContent();
+			$error   = $response->getError()
+			                    ->getMessage();
+			call_user_func($function, $content, $error);
+		}
+		return $response;
+	}
+}