diff --git a/lib/ocsclient.php b/lib/ocsclient.php
index b6b5ad8f0a99b9a3322f423e2866f5d19b9065e2..e730b159afdbdd18973e21b57cec7664067c8017 100644
--- a/lib/ocsclient.php
+++ b/lib/ocsclient.php
@@ -55,20 +55,11 @@ class OC_OCSClient{
 	 * This function calls an OCS server and returns the response. It also sets a sane timeout
 	*/
 	private static function getOCSresponse($url) {
-		// set a sensible timeout of 10 sec to stay responsive even if the server is down.
-		$ctx = stream_context_create(
-			array(
-				'http' => array(
-					'timeout' => 10
-				)
-			)
-		);
-		$data=@file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx);
+		$data = \OC_Util::getUrlContent($url);
 		return($data);
 	}
 
-
-	/**
+        /**
 	 * @brief Get all the categories from the OCS server
 	 * @returns array with category ids
 	 * @note returns NULL if config value appstoreenabled is set to false
diff --git a/lib/util.php b/lib/util.php
index da57b226ba05c6b2bd1907d1bc08eb11e87221c1..725278a39e65b0de63fd64358e19d84c39e2ce31 100755
--- a/lib/util.php
+++ b/lib/util.php
@@ -669,4 +669,43 @@ class OC_Util {
 
 		return false;
 	}
+        
+        /**
+         * @Brief Get file content via curl.
+         * @param string $url Url to get content
+         * @return string of the response or false on error
+         * This function get the content of a page via curl, if curl is enabled.
+         * If not, file_get_element is used.
+         */
+        
+        public static function getUrlContent($url){
+            
+            if  (function_exists('curl_init')) {
+                
+                $curl = curl_init();
+
+                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
+                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
+                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+
+                $data = curl_exec($curl);
+                curl_close($curl);
+
+            } else {
+                
+                $ctx = stream_context_create(
+                    array(
+                        'http' => array(
+                            'timeout' => 10
+                        )
+                    )
+                );
+                $data=@file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx);
+                
+            }
+            
+            return $data;
+        }
+        
 }