diff --git a/ip2locationlite.class.php b/ip2locationlite.class.php
index 7ea2f2f..f04b0dd 100644
--- a/ip2locationlite.class.php
+++ b/ip2locationlite.class.php
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <?php
+# Patched to use CURL instead of file_get_contents
+
 final class ip2location_lite{
 	protected $errors = array();
 	protected $service = 'api.ipinfodb.com';
@@ -30,7 +32,12 @@ final class ip2location_lite{
 
 		// if(filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV6)){
 		if(filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)){
-			$xml = @file_get_contents('http://' . $this->service . '/' . $this->version . '/' . $name . '/?key=' . $this->apiKey . '&ip=' . $ip . '&format=xml');
+	    $url = 'http://' . $this->service . '/' . $this->version . '/' . $name . '/?key=' . $this->apiKey . '&ip=' . $ip . '&format=xml';
+      $ch =curl_init($url);
+      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+      $xml = curl_exec($ch);
+      curl_close($ch);
+      //$xml = @file_get_contents('http://' . $this->service . '/' . $this->version . '/' . $name . '/?key=' . $this->apiKey . '&ip=' . $ip . '&format=xml');
 
 
 			if (get_magic_quotes_runtime()){