diff --git a/api/api.backend.php b/api/api.backend.php
index 968f474..3bea16e 100644
--- a/api/api.backend.php
+++ b/api/api.backend.php
@@ -9,10 +9,31 @@
   * ============================================================
   */
 
-function checkRemoteFile($link){
-	if (@file_get_contents($link)): return true;
-	else: return false;
-	endif;
+function checkRemoteFile($ip=null){
+    if($ip==null) return false;
+
+    // Setup the connection and only get the headers
+    $header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
+	$header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
+	$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
+	$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
+	$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
+	$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
+	$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
+	$header[] = "Pragma: ";
+
+    $curlInit = curl_init($ip);
+    curl_setopt($curlInit, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
+    curl_setopt($curlInit, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
+    curl_setopt($curlInit, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+    curl_setopt($curlInit, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'UnPS-GAMATechnologies (UnPS WebQuery/4-2.8; +http://unps.us)');
+    curl_setopt($curlInit, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
+
+    $response = curl_exec($curlInit);
+    curl_close($curlInit);
+
+    if($response) return true;
+    return false;
 }
 
 include('hashpass.php');