$url = 'http://example.com/api/my/link/';
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); //I tried this to see any certificate problems
        $response = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        return $response