diff --git a/lib/ajax.php b/lib/ajax.php
index 6815926b..83a9af5c 100644
--- a/lib/ajax.php
+++ b/lib/ajax.php
@@ -26,11 +26,22 @@ if(isset($_POST['action'])) {
 }
 
 if ($action == "newsfeed") {
+	$feed = "http://forum.froxlor.org/index.php/rss/forums/1-froxlor-announcements/";
+
 	if (function_exists("simplexml_load_file") == false) {
 		die();
 	}
 	
-	$news = simplexml_load_file('http://froxlor.org/feed.rss.php', null, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
+	if (ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) {
+		$news = simplexml_load_file($feed, null, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
+	} else {
+		$ch = curl_init();
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $feed);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+		$output = curl_exec($ch);
+		curl_close($ch);
+		$news = simplexml_load_file(trim($output));
+	}
 
 	if ($news !== false) {
 		for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) {