public static function getStaticHttpClient() { if (!self::$_staticHttpClient instanceof Zend_Http_Client) { $client = new Zend_Http_Client(); $userAgent = 'Zend_Framework_Gdata/' . Zend_Version::VERSION; $client->setHeaders('User-Agent', $userAgent); $client->setConfig(array('strictredirects' => true)); self::$_staticHttpClient = $client; } return self::$_staticHttpClient; }