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The followlocation setting in curl seems to give issues in some cases. I’ve made an edited version of the curl function, which does not need the followlocation option. To check if this works for you, you can replace the current get_contents() function with this one, which works fine on my installs. If that solves your issue, and the tests work out, I’ll add it to the next update:

public function get_contents($url, $timeout = 5) {
    $this->curl_installed = $this->is_curl_installed();

    //preferrably with curl, but else with file get contents
    if ($this->curl_installed) {

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
        //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
        //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 3);
        $filecontents = curl_exec($ch);

        $http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

        if(curl_errno($ch)) {
          $this->error_number = curl_errno($ch);
        } elseif ($http_code>400) {
          $this->error_number = $http_code;
        } else {
          $this->error_number = 0;
        }

        curl_close($ch);
        if ($http_code != 200) {
            if ($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302) {
                list($header) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $filecontents, 2);
                $matches = array();
                preg_match("/(Location:|URI:)[^(\n)]*/", $header, $matches);
                $url = trim(str_replace($matches[1],"",$matches[0]));
                $url_parsed = parse_url($url);
                return isset($url_parsed) ? $this->get_contents($url) : '';
            }
        }

      } else {
        set_error_handler(array($this,'custom_error_handling'));
        $filecontents = file_get_contents($url);
        //errors back to normal
        restore_error_handler();
      }
      return $filecontents;
  }