diff --git a/lib/simplepie/simplepie.inc b/lib/simplepie/simplepie.inc
index 45c33c86e..49e9edf39 100644
--- a/lib/simplepie/simplepie.inc
+++ b/lib/simplepie/simplepie.inc
@@ -7690,6 +7690,10 @@ class SimplePie_File
 					curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $redirects);
 				}
 
+				/* Enable Digest authentication and SSL -fox */
+				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); 
+				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
+
 				$this->headers = curl_exec($fp);
 				if (curl_errno($fp) === 23 || curl_errno($fp) === 61)
 				{