public static function makeRequest(HttpRequest $request)
 {
     $requestUri = $request->getRequestUri()->getUri();
     // if the request is towards a file URL, return the response constructed
     // from file
     if (0 === strpos($requestUri, "file:///")) {
         return HttpResponse::fromFile($requestUri);
     }
     $httpResponse = new HttpResponse();
     $curlChannel = curl_init();
     curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_URL, $requestUri);
     curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
     curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
     curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
     if ($request->getRequestMethod() === "POST") {
         curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
         curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request->getContent());
     }
     $basicAuthUser = $request->getBasicAuthUser();
     $basicAuthPass = $request->getBasicAuthPass();
     if (NULL !== $basicAuthUser) {
         $request->setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " . base64_encode($basicAuthUser . ":" . $basicAuthPass));
     }
     // Including HTTP headers in request
     $headers = $request->getHeaders(TRUE);
     if (!empty($headers)) {
         curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
     }
     // Connect to SSL/TLS server, validate certificate and host
     if ($request->getRequestUri()->getScheme() === "https") {
         curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
         curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
     }
     // Callback to extract all the HTTP headers from the response...
     // In order to really correctly parse HTTP headers one would have to look at RFC 2616...
     curl_setopt($curlChannel, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, function ($curlChannel, $header) use($httpResponse) {
         // Ignore Status-Line (RFC 2616, section 6.1)
         if (0 === preg_match('|^HTTP/\\d+.\\d+ [1-5]\\d\\d|', $header)) {
             // Only deal with header lines that contain a colon
             if (strpos($header, ":") !== FALSE) {
                 // Only deal with header lines that contain a colon
                 list($key, $value) = explode(":", trim($header));
                 $httpResponse->setHeader(trim($key), trim($value));
             }
         }
         return strlen($header);
     });
     $output = curl_exec($curlChannel);
     if ($errorNumber = curl_errno($curlChannel)) {
         throw new OutgoingHttpRequestException(curl_error($curlChannel));
     }
     $httpResponse->setStatusCode(curl_getinfo($curlChannel, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE));
     $httpResponse->setContent($output);
     curl_close($curlChannel);
     return $httpResponse;
 }