diff --git a/lib/private/apphelper.php b/lib/private/apphelper.php
index bd02f3aabfa6..1e300ebb35c6 100644
--- a/lib/private/apphelper.php
+++ b/lib/private/apphelper.php
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ class AppHelper implements \OCP\IHelper {
 	 * Gets the content of an URL by using CURL or a fallback if it is not
 	 * installed
 	 * @param string $url the url that should be fetched
+	 * @param bool $verifyCert Whether the SSL certificate should get verified (defaults to yes)
 	 * @return string the content of the webpage
 	 */
-	public function getUrlContent($url) {
-		return \OC_Util::getUrlContent($url);
+	public function getUrlContent($url, $verifyCert = true) {
+		return \OC_Util::getUrlContent($url, $verifyCert);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/lib/private/util.php b/lib/private/util.php
index d3b682daa5c2..1c1829377d38 100755
--- a/lib/private/util.php
+++ b/lib/private/util.php
@@ -1010,11 +1010,12 @@ public static function secureRNGAvailable() {
 	/**
 	 * @Brief Get file content via curl.
 	 * @param string $url Url to get content
+	 * @param bool $verifyCert Whether the SSL certificate should get verified (defaults to yes)
 	 * @return string of the response or false on error
 	 * This function get the content of a page via curl, if curl is enabled.
 	 * If not, file_get_contents is used.
 	 */
-	public static function getUrlContent($url) {
+	public static function getUrlContent($url, $verifyCert = true) {
 		if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
 			$curl = curl_init();
 
@@ -1024,6 +1025,7 @@ public static function getUrlContent($url) {
 			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
 			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $verifyCert);
 
 			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "ownCloud Server Crawler");
 			if(OC_Config::getValue('proxy', '') != '') {
@@ -1049,6 +1051,9 @@ public static function getUrlContent($url) {
 				$contextArray = array(
 					'http' => array(
 						'timeout' => 10
+					),
+					'ssl' => array(
+						'verify_peer' => $verifyCert
 					)
 				);
 			}
diff --git a/lib/public/ihelper.php b/lib/public/ihelper.php
index c0723b8edc7c..17b851e12823 100644
--- a/lib/public/ihelper.php
+++ b/lib/public/ihelper.php
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ interface IHelper {
 	 * Gets the content of an URL by using CURL or a fallback if it is not
 	 * installed
 	 * @param string $url the url that should be fetched
+	 * @param bool $verifyCert Whether the SSL certificate should get verified (defaults to yes)
 	 * @return string the content of the webpage
 	 */
-	public function getUrlContent($url);
+	public function getUrlContent($url, $verifyCert);
 }