diff --git a/classes/Tools.php b/classes/Tools.php
index 7617ddec1..30cff6c8a 100644
--- a/classes/Tools.php
+++ b/classes/Tools.php
@@ -1313,9 +1313,30 @@ class ToolsCore
 	{
 		return @simplexml_load_string(Tools::file_get_contents($url), $class_name);
 	}
+	
+	public static function copy($source, $destination, $stream_context = null)
+	{
+		if ($stream_context == null && preg_match('/^https?:\/\//', $source))
+			$stream_context = @stream_context_create(array('http' => array('timeout' => 10)));
 
-
-	public static $a = 0;
+		if (in_array(@ini_get('allow_url_fopen'), array('On', 'on', '1')) || !preg_match('/^https?:\/\//', $source))
+			return @copy($source, $destination, $stream_context);
+		elseif (function_exists('curl_init'))
+		{
+			$curl = curl_init();
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $source);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
+			$opts = stream_context_get_options($stream_context);
+			$content = curl_exec($curl);
+			curl_close($curl);
+			return file_put_contents($content, $destination);
+		}
+		else
+			return false;
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * @deprecated as of 1.5 use Media::minifyHTML()
diff --git a/controllers/admin/AdminImportController.php b/controllers/admin/AdminImportController.php
index 2bf3a7aa5..4caac1013 100644
--- a/controllers/admin/AdminImportController.php
+++ b/controllers/admin/AdminImportController.php
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ class AdminImportControllerCore extends AdminController
 
 		// 'file_exists' doesn't work on distant file, and getimagesize make the import slower.
 		// Just hide the warning, the traitment will be the same.
-		if (@copy($url, $tmpfile))
+		if (Tools::copy($url, $tmpfile))
 		{
 			ImageManager::resize($tmpfile, $path.'.jpg');
 			$images_types = ImageType::getImagesTypes($entity);