diff --git a/include/functions.php b/include/functions.php
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index de93267ee..17bd9f371
--- a/include/functions.php
+++ b/include/functions.php
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@
 		$timeout = isset($options["timeout"]) ? $options["timeout"] : false;
 		$timestamp = isset($options["timestamp"]) ? $options["timestamp"] : 0;
 		$useragent = isset($options["useragent"]) ? $options["useragent"] : false;
+		$followlocation = isset($options["followlocation"]) ? $options["followlocation"] : true;
 
 		$url = ltrim($url, ' ');
 		$url = str_replace(' ', '%20', $url);
@@ -388,7 +389,7 @@
 
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout ? $timeout : FILE_FETCH_CONNECT_TIMEOUT);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout ? $timeout : FILE_FETCH_TIMEOUT);
-			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, !ini_get("open_basedir"));
+			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, !ini_get("open_basedir") && $followlocation);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 20);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);