diff --git a/fullrss.php b/fullrss.php
index 8c2b762..42ccf0d 100644
--- a/fullrss.php
+++ b/fullrss.php
@@ -41,9 +41,15 @@
         return file_get_contents($cachefile);
     }
 
-    $url=$_GET["url"];
-    $feed=new SimpleXmlElement(file_get_contents($url)); // read feed into object
-
+    $url=$_GET["url"];      
+    $ch=curl_init(); // 8 Apr 25: market-ticker.org wants a user agent set
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0");
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+    $feed=new SimpleXmlElement(curl_exec($ch)); // read feed into object
+    curl_close($ch);
+    
     // type 1
     foreach ($feed->item as $entry) // fix up each entry
     {