That getInstance method seems odd to me, the new self(), should be self::$instance = new self; plus its odd to have this static call just for this.

But else it looks good by skimming over it, I wrote a similar thing in C as a PHP extension, however I didn't use curl but rather the streams api, and a notifier for grabbing the HTTP code which is a quite useful feature that no many seems to know about :)

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