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+<?php
+/**
+ * GET an HTTP URL to retrieve its content
+ *
+ * @param string $url      URL to get (http://...)
+ * @param int    $timeout  network timeout (in seconds)
+ * @param int    $maxBytes maximum downloaded bytes (default: 4 MiB)
+ *
+ * @return array HTTP response headers, downloaded content
+ *
+ * Output format:
+ *  [0] = associative array containing HTTP response headers
+ *  [1] = URL content (downloaded data)
+ *
+ * Example:
+ *  list($headers, $data) = get_http_url('http://sebauvage.net/');
+ *  if (strpos($headers[0], '200 OK') !== false) {
+ *      echo 'Data type: '.htmlspecialchars($headers['Content-Type']);
+ *  } else {
+ *      echo 'There was an error: '.htmlspecialchars($headers[0]);
+ *  }
+ *
+ * @see http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
+ * @see http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php
+ * @see http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-headers.php
+ */
+function get_http_url($url, $timeout = 30, $maxBytes = 4194304)
+{
+    $options = array(
+        'http' => array(
+            'method' => 'GET',
+            'timeout' => $timeout,
+            'user_agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0)'
+                         .' Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0'
+        )
+    );
+
+    $context = stream_context_create($options);
+
+    try {
+        // TODO: catch Exception in calling code (thumbnailer)
+        $content = file_get_contents($url, false, $context, -1, $maxBytes);
+    } catch (Exception $exc) {
+        return array(array(0 => 'HTTP Error'), $exc->getMessage());
+    }
+
+    if (!$content) {
+        return array(array(0 => 'HTTP Error'), '');
+    }
+
+    return array(get_headers($url, 1), $content);
+}