/**
 * url_get_contents function
 *
 * @param string $url URL 
 *
 * @return string
 **/
function url_get_contents($url)
{
    // holds the output
    $output = "";
    // To make a remote call in wordpress it's better to use the wrapper functions instead
    // of class methods. http://codex.wordpress.org/HTTP_API
    // SSL Verification was disabled in the cUrl call
    $result = wp_remote_get($url, array('sslverify' => false, 'timeout' => 120));
    // The wrapper functions return an WP_error if anything goes wrong.
    if (is_wp_error($result)) {
        // We explicitly return false to notify an error. This is exactly the same behaviour we had before
        // because both curl_exec() and file_get_contents() returned false on error
        return FALSE;
    }
    $output = $result['body'];
    // check if data is utf-8
    if (!SG_iCal_Parser::_ValidUtf8($output)) {
        // Encode the data in utf-8
        $output = utf8_encode($output);
    }
    return $output;
}
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 /**
  * Sets (or resets) the url this reader reads from.
  * @param $url string
  */
 public function setUrl($url = false)
 {
     if ($url !== false) {
         SG_iCal_Parser::Parse($url, $this);
     }
 }