diff --git a/src/curlhandler.cpp b/src/curlhandler.cpp
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+++ b/src/curlhandler.cpp
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+#include "curlhandler.h"
+
+using namespace std;
+
+
+// urlDecode matches
+string matches[][2] = {
+	{"$", "%24"},
+	{"&", "%26"},
+	{"+", "%2B"},
+	{",", "%2C"},
+	{"/", "%2F"},
+	{":", "%3A"},
+	{";", "%3B"},
+	{"=", "%3D"},
+	{"?", "%3F"},
+	{"@", "%40"}
+};
+
+
+
+// needed for handling curl output
+static size_t WriteCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
+{
+	((std::string*)userp)->append((char*)contents, size * nmemb);
+	return size * nmemb;
+}
+
+
+string CurlHandler::request(string data, const char* url)
+{
+	CURL *curl;
+	CURLcode res;
+	string readBuffer;
+	curl = curl_easy_init();
+
+	if(curl)
+	{
+		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, USER_AGENT);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data.c_str());
+		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteCallback);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &readBuffer);
+		res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+		curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+
+		if(res != CURLE_OK)
+		{
+			//throw PusherError("Network Error");
+		}
+	}
+
+	return readBuffer;
+}
+
+
+string CurlHandler::urlDecode(string url)
+{
+
+	for(unsigned int i = 0; i < (sizeof(matches)/sizeof(matches[0])); i++)
+	{
+		size_t start_pos = 0;
+		while((start_pos = url.find(matches[i][0], start_pos)) != string::npos)
+		{
+			url.replace(start_pos, matches[i][0].length(), matches[i][1]);
+			start_pos += matches[i][1].length();
+		}
+	}
+
+	return url;
+}
diff --git a/src/curlhandler.h b/src/curlhandler.h
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+++ b/src/curlhandler.h
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+#ifndef H_CURLHANDLER
+#define H_CURLHANDLER
+
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <string>
+
+#define USER_AGENT "pusher/0.2"
+
+
+class CurlHandler
+{
+public:
+	static std::string request(std::string data, const char* url);
+	static std::string urlDecode(std::string url);
+};
+
+#endif