diff --git a/admin/award_download.php b/admin/award_download.php
index a709520..374cc27 100644
--- a/admin/award_download.php
+++ b/admin/award_download.php
@@ -72,14 +72,16 @@
 			curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, 0);
 			curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 360);
 			curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3);
+			curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 			$datastream = curl_exec ($ch); /// execute the curl session and return the output to a variable $datastream
 			$datastream = str_replace(" standalone=\"yes\"","",$datastream);
 			// echo "curl close <br />";
 			curl_close ($ch); /// close the curl session
+//            echo "sending [".nl2br(htmlspecialchars($xmldata))."]";
 
 			echo i18n("The Remote Server said:")."<br />";
-			//echo notice($datastream);
 			$response=xml_parsexml($datastream);
+            if(is_array($response)) {
 			$keys=array_keys($response);
 			if($keys[0]=="awardresponse") {
 
@@ -298,6 +300,9 @@ echo mysql_error();
 			}
 			else
 				echo error(i18n("Invalid XML response.  Expecting '%1', received '%2'",array("awardresponse",$keys[0])));
+            }
+            else
+				echo error(i18n("Invalid response.  Could not parse XML into Array: %1",array($response)));
 //				echo "response=".print_r($datastream);
 				
 			echo "<br />";