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+<?php
+// Allocate a new cURL handle
+$ch = curl_init("http://www.designmultimedia.com/intro.jpg");
+if (! $ch) {
+	die( "Cannot allocate a new PHP-CURL handle" );
+}
+
+// We'll be returning this transfer, and the data is binary
+// so we don't want to NULL terminate
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
+
+// Grab the jpg and save the contents in the $data variable
+$data = curl_exec($ch);
+
+// close the connection
+curl_close($ch);
+
+// Set the header to type image/jpeg, since that's what we're
+// displaying
+header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
+
+// Output the image
+print( $data );
+?>