public function get_curl_handle_for_request($method, $params) {
  		list($get, $post) = $this->finalize_params($method, $params);
    $post_string = $this->create_url_string($post);
    $get_string = $this->create_url_string($get);
    $url_with_get = $this->server_addr . '?' . $get_string;

      $useragent = 'Facebook API PHP5 Client 1.1 (curl) ' . phpversion();
      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url_with_get);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 20);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);

    return $ch;
  }