--- flickr.module	2006-07-30 14:22:00.000000000 -0700
+++ flickr.module.curl	2006-07-30 14:27:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -177,14 +177,15 @@ function flickr_get_cached_file_contents
       // do nothing. XXX: Add stats code here.
     }
   else {
-    $f  = fopen($file,"r");
-    $f2 = fopen($cache_filename,"w+");
-    while ($r = fread($f,8192))
-      {
-	fwrite($f2,$r);
-      }
-    fclose($f2);
-    fclose($f);
+	$ch = curl_init();
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $file);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+	$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
+	curl_close($ch);
+
+	$fh = fopen($cache_filename, 'w+');
+	fwrite($fh, $file_contents);
+	fclose($fh);
   }
   return file_get_contents ($cache_filename); // Return the file contents from the cache
 }