diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index dbed5a9b..3cd93155 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ vendor/
 composer.lock
 .project
 .settings
-.DS_Store
\ No newline at end of file
+.DS_Store
+.idea
diff --git a/SEOstats/Config/DefaultSettings.php b/SEOstats/Config/DefaultSettings.php
index 96aa2c17..7123e5a9 100644
--- a/SEOstats/Config/DefaultSettings.php
+++ b/SEOstats/Config/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -66,4 +66,13 @@ interface DefaultSettings
     //   fr – France
     //   it – Italy
     const SISTRIX_DB = 'de';
+
+    // Enter proxy to use with curl
+    // leave empty to disable proxy
+    const CURLOPT_PROXY = '';
+
+    // Enter proxy username and password (seperated by :) if necessary
+    // leave empty tp to disable
+    const CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD = '';
+
 }
diff --git a/SEOstats/Helper/HttpRequest.php b/SEOstats/Helper/HttpRequest.php
index 0f8ba3d4..f0b92317 100644
--- a/SEOstats/Helper/HttpRequest.php
+++ b/SEOstats/Helper/HttpRequest.php
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 namespace SEOstats\Helper;
 
+use SEOstats\Config\DefaultSettings;
+
 /**
  * HTTP Request Helper Class
  *
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@
  * @author     Stephan Schmitz <eyecatchup@gmail.com>
  * @copyright  Copyright (c) 2010 - present Stephan Schmitz
  * @license    http://eyecatchup.mit-license.org/  MIT License
- * @updated    2013/05/12
+ * @updated    2016/03/17
  */
 
 class HttpRequest
@@ -36,6 +38,12 @@ public static function sendRequest($url, $postData = false, $postJson = false)
             CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS       => 2,
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER  => 0,
         ));
+        if(!empty(DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXY)) {
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXY);
+        }
+        if(!empty(DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD)) {
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD);
+        }
 
         if (false !== $postData) {
             if (false !== $postJson) {
@@ -79,6 +87,12 @@ public static function getHttpCode($url)
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER  => 0,
             CURLOPT_NOBODY          => 1,
         ));
+        if(!empty(DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXY)) {
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXY);
+        }
+        if(!empty(DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD)) {
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD);
+        }
 
         curl_exec($ch);
         $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
@@ -104,6 +118,12 @@ public function getFile($url, $file)
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER  => 0,
             CURLOPT_FILE            => $fp,
         ));
+        if(!empty(DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXY)) {
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXY);
+        }
+        if(!empty(DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD)) {
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, DefaultSettings::CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD);
+        }
 
         curl_exec($ch);
         curl_close($ch);
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index d9cfb953..255fab57 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@
 		"ext-json" : "*"
 	},
     "require-dev" : {
-				"squizlabs/php_codesniffer" : "~1",
+		"squizlabs/php_codesniffer" : "~1",
 		"composer/composer": "1.0.*@dev",
         "phpunit/phpunit" : ">=3.7,<4",
-				"scrutinizer/ocular" : "~1"
+		"scrutinizer/ocular" : "~1"
     },
 	"autoload" : {
 		"psr-0" : {