diff --git a/program/steps/utils/modcss.inc b/program/steps/utils/modcss.inc
index c8a7cb524..f88ae1a96 100644
--- a/program/steps/utils/modcss.inc
+++ b/program/steps/utils/modcss.inc
@@ -33,24 +33,44 @@ if (!preg_match('~^(https?)://~i', $realurl, $matches)) {
     exit("Invalid URL");
 }
 
-if (!ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) {
+if (ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) {
+	$scheme  = strtolower($matches[1]);
+	$options = array(
+	    $scheme => array(
+	        'method' => 'GET',
+	        'timeout' => 15,
+	    )
+	);
+
+	$context = stream_context_create($options);
+	$source  = @file_get_contents($realurl, false, $context);
+
+	// php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httpresponseheader.php
+	$headers = implode("\n", (array)$http_response_header);
+} else if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
+	$curl = curl_init($realurl);
+	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
+	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);
+	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
+	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
+	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
+	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+	$data = curl_exec($curl);
+
+	if ($data !== false)
+	{
+		list($headers, $source) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $data, 2);
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		$headers = false;
+		$source = false;
+	}
+} else {
     header('HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden');
     exit("HTTP connections disabled");
 }
 
-$scheme  = strtolower($matches[1]);
-$options = array(
-    $scheme => array(
-        'method' => 'GET',
-        'timeout' => 15,
-    )
-);
-
-$context = stream_context_create($options);
-$source  = @file_get_contents($realurl, false, $context);
-
-// php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httpresponseheader.php
-$headers = implode("\n", (array)$http_response_header);
 $ctype   = '~Content-Type:\s+text/(css|plain)~i';
 
 if ($source !== false && preg_match($ctype, $headers)) {