diff --git a/include/network.php b/include/network.php
index c1a76000ef..500dff08be 100644
--- a/include/network.php
+++ b/include/network.php
@@ -14,15 +14,16 @@ function fetch_url($url,$binary = false, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0, $accept_
 		return false;
 
 	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
-	
+
 	if (!is_null($accept_content)){
 		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array (
 			"Accept: " . $accept_content
 		));
 	}
-	
+
 	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
-	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Friendica");
+	//@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Friendica");
+	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Friendica)");
 
 
 	if(intval($timeout)) {
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@ function fetch_url($url,$binary = false, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0, $accept_
 	$base = $s;
 	$curl_info = @curl_getinfo($ch);
 	$http_code = $curl_info['http_code'];
-
 //	logger('fetch_url:' . $http_code . ' data: ' . $s);
 	$header = '';
 
@@ -73,24 +73,22 @@ function fetch_url($url,$binary = false, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0, $accept_
 	}
 
 	if($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302 || $http_code == 303 || $http_code == 307) {
-        $matches = array();
-        preg_match('/(Location:|URI:)(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
-        $newurl = trim(array_pop($matches));
+		$matches = array();
+		preg_match('/(Location:|URI:)(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
+		$newurl = trim(array_pop($matches));
 		if(strpos($newurl,'/') === 0)
 			$newurl = $url . $newurl;
-        $url_parsed = @parse_url($newurl);
-        if (isset($url_parsed)) {
-            $redirects++;
-            return fetch_url($newurl,$binary,$redirects,$timeout);
-        }
-    }
+		$url_parsed = @parse_url($newurl);
+		if (isset($url_parsed)) {
+			$redirects++;
+			return fetch_url($newurl,$binary,$redirects,$timeout);
+		}
+	}
 
 	$a->set_curl_code($http_code);
 
 	$body = substr($s,strlen($header));
-
 	$a->set_curl_headers($header);
-
 	@curl_close($ch);
 	return($body);
 }}