diff --git a/apps/files_external/lib/amazons3.php b/apps/files_external/lib/amazons3.php
index 4d94e3561f8625c864c80a72f5c50a40e21affac..73345d3089368671f983142a9bf800e241b3f30f 100644
--- a/apps/files_external/lib/amazons3.php
+++ b/apps/files_external/lib/amazons3.php
@@ -627,11 +627,7 @@ class AmazonS3 extends \OC\Files\Storage\Common {
 	 * check if curl is installed
 	 */
 	public static function checkDependencies() {
-		if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
-			return true;
-		} else {
-			return array('curl');
-		}
+		return true;
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/apps/files_external/lib/dropbox.php b/apps/files_external/lib/dropbox.php
index cc1e628f8516bf36799a7acbdf7cb95be456e3a5..3dea8515b7be7d0ff2f1f1fbf1f61d1b93fd1058 100644
--- a/apps/files_external/lib/dropbox.php
+++ b/apps/files_external/lib/dropbox.php
@@ -316,11 +316,7 @@ class Dropbox extends \OC\Files\Storage\Common {
 	 * check if curl is installed
 	 */
 	public static function checkDependencies() {
-		if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
-			return true;
-		} else {
-			return array('curl');
-		}
+		return true;
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/apps/files_external/lib/google.php b/apps/files_external/lib/google.php
index bd9bdce2a671da248f8b7a808dcf7aa94cd8b036..92351bc08868761d23fa34e90527dd246cad68d1 100644
--- a/apps/files_external/lib/google.php
+++ b/apps/files_external/lib/google.php
@@ -617,11 +617,7 @@ class Google extends \OC\Files\Storage\Common {
 	 * check if curl is installed
 	 */
 	public static function checkDependencies() {
-		if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
-			return true;
-		} else {
-			return array('curl');
-		}
+		return true;
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/apps/files_external/lib/swift.php b/apps/files_external/lib/swift.php
index 79effc048743dd8aa39d1a60762fd526e1222b86..37f81313701ff6ad03a77a485f99f8121ad4f5c1 100644
--- a/apps/files_external/lib/swift.php
+++ b/apps/files_external/lib/swift.php
@@ -567,11 +567,7 @@ class Swift extends \OC\Files\Storage\Common {
 	 * check if curl is installed
 	 */
 	public static function checkDependencies() {
-		if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
-			return true;
-		} else {
-			return array('curl');
-		}
+		return true;
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/lib/private/files/storage/dav.php b/lib/private/files/storage/dav.php
index 7ca182621153c4d6008be51ac99bd130e4166fa4..e0f24e0532d69ca232f686dbeee29c2c0c7bbea5 100644
--- a/lib/private/files/storage/dav.php
+++ b/lib/private/files/storage/dav.php
@@ -512,11 +512,7 @@ class DAV extends \OC\Files\Storage\Common {
 	 * check if curl is installed
 	 */
 	public static function checkDependencies() {
-		if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
-			return true;
-		} else {
-			return array('curl');
-		}
+		return true;
 	}
 
 	/** {@inheritdoc} */
diff --git a/lib/private/httphelper.php b/lib/private/httphelper.php
index 08c35e4ae08f51b15b397d152773a5d215cf9189..6bb8e1d3ec072e06bf1a48726a5b18be2ec74789 100644
--- a/lib/private/httphelper.php
+++ b/lib/private/httphelper.php
@@ -60,82 +60,68 @@ class HTTPHelper {
 
 		$proxy = $this->config->getSystemValue('proxy', null);
 		$proxyUserPwd = $this->config->getSystemValue('proxyuserpwd', null);
-		if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
-			$curl = curl_init();
-			$max_redirects = 10;
-
-			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
-			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
-			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
-			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
-			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS,  CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
-			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS,  CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
-
-			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, self::USER_AGENT);
-			if ($proxy !== null) {
-				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
-			}
-			if ($proxyUserPwd !== null) {
-				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $proxyUserPwd);
-			}
+		$curl = curl_init();
+		$max_redirects = 10;
+
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS,  CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS,  CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
+
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, self::USER_AGENT);
+		if ($proxy !== null) {
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
+		}
+		if ($proxyUserPwd !== null) {
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $proxyUserPwd);
+		}
 
-			if (ini_get('open_basedir') === '') {
-				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
-				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $max_redirects);
-				$data = curl_exec($curl);
-			} else {
-				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
-				$mr = $max_redirects;
-				if ($mr > 0) {
-					$newURL = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
-					$rcurl = curl_copy_handle($curl);
-					curl_setopt($rcurl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
-					curl_setopt($rcurl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
-					curl_setopt($rcurl, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, false);
-					curl_setopt($rcurl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-					curl_setopt($rcurl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, self::USER_AGENT);
-					do {
-						curl_setopt($rcurl, CURLOPT_URL, $newURL);
-						$header = curl_exec($rcurl);
-						if (curl_errno($rcurl)) {
-							$code = 0;
+		if (ini_get('open_basedir') === '') {
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $max_redirects);
+			$data = curl_exec($curl);
+		} else {
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
+			$mr = $max_redirects;
+			if ($mr > 0) {
+				$newURL = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
+				$rCurl = curl_copy_handle($curl);
+				curl_setopt($rCurl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
+				curl_setopt($rCurl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
+				curl_setopt($rCurl, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, false);
+				curl_setopt($rCurl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+				curl_setopt($rCurl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, self::USER_AGENT);
+				do {
+					curl_setopt($rCurl, CURLOPT_URL, $newURL);
+					$header = curl_exec($rCurl);
+					if (curl_errno($rCurl)) {
+						$code = 0;
+					} else {
+						$code = curl_getinfo($rCurl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+						if ($code == 301 || $code == 302) {
+							preg_match('/Location:(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
+							$newURL = trim(array_pop($matches));
 						} else {
-							$code = curl_getinfo($rcurl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
-							if ($code == 301 || $code == 302) {
-								preg_match('/Location:(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
-								$newURL = trim(array_pop($matches));
-							} else {
-								$code = 0;
-							}
+							$code = 0;
 						}
-					} while ($code && --$mr);
-					curl_close($rcurl);
-					if ($mr > 0) {
-						curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $newURL);
 					}
-				}
-
-				if ($mr == 0 && $max_redirects > 0) {
-					$data = false;
-				} else {
-					$data = curl_exec($curl);
+				} while ($code && --$mr);
+				curl_close($rCurl);
+				if ($mr > 0) {
+					curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $newURL);
 				}
 			}
-			curl_close($curl);
-		} else {
-			$url = $this->getFinalLocationOfURL($url);
-			$contextArray = $this->getDefaultContextArray();
 
-			if ($proxy !== null) {
-				$contextArray['http']['proxy'] = $proxy;
+			if ($mr == 0 && $max_redirects > 0) {
+				$data = false;
+			} else {
+				$data = curl_exec($curl);
 			}
-
-			$ctx = stream_context_create(
-				$contextArray
-			);
-			$data = @file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx);
-
 		}
+		curl_close($curl);
+
 		return $data;
 	}
 
@@ -158,29 +144,6 @@ class HTTPHelper {
 		return stripos($url, 'https://') === 0 || stripos($url, 'http://') === 0;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Returns the last HTTP or HTTPS site the request has been redirected too using the Location HTTP header
-	 * This is a very ugly workaround about the missing functionality to restrict fopen() to protocols
-	 * @param string $location Needs to be a HTTPS or HTTP URL
-	 * @throws \Exception In case the initial URL is not a HTTP or HTTPS one
-	 * @return string
-	 */
-	public function getFinalLocationOfURL($location) {
-		if(!$this->isHTTPURL($location)) {
-			throw new \Exception('URL must begin with HTTPS or HTTP.');
-		}
-		$headerArray = $this->getHeaders($location, 1);
-
-		if($headerArray !== false && isset($headerArray['Location'])) {
-			while($this->isHTTPURL($headerArray['Location'])) {
-				$location = $headerArray['Location'];
-				$headerArray = $this->getHeaders($location);
-			}
-		}
-
-		return $location;
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * create string of parameters for post request
 	 *
diff --git a/lib/private/largefilehelper.php b/lib/private/largefilehelper.php
index b6a8c536e9bbf000e2e752c93122a52292f83df7..a5a8f302eaba8fc322d813c3ccc7bc9f16fcef32 100644
--- a/lib/private/largefilehelper.php
+++ b/lib/private/largefilehelper.php
@@ -94,15 +94,15 @@ class LargeFileHelper {
 	/**
 	* @brief Tries to get the size of a file via a CURL HEAD request.
 	*
-	* @param string $filename Path to the file.
+	* @param string $fileName Path to the file.
 	*
 	* @return null|int|float Number of bytes as number (float or int) or
 	*                        null on failure.
 	*/
-	public function getFileSizeViaCurl($filename) {
-		if (function_exists('curl_init') && \OC::$server->getIniWrapper()->getString('open_basedir') === '') {
-			$fencoded = rawurlencode($filename);
-			$ch = curl_init("file://$fencoded");
+	public function getFileSizeViaCurl($fileName) {
+		if (\OC::$server->getIniWrapper()->getString('open_basedir') === '') {
+			$encodedFileName = rawurlencode($fileName);
+			$ch = curl_init("file://$encodedFileName");
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ class LargeFileHelper {
 	*/
 	public function getFileSizeViaCOM($filename) {
 		if (class_exists('COM')) {
-			$fsobj = new \COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
-			$file = $fsobj->GetFile($filename);
+			$fsObj = new \COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
+			$file = $fsObj->GetFile($filename);
 			return 0 + $file->Size;
 		}
 		return null;
diff --git a/lib/private/setup.php b/lib/private/setup.php
index 44b6ad56cb89a77645aa44fae2c97a1737b70d46..830a6176caffa3a8fce167b7df304678526817bb 100644
--- a/lib/private/setup.php
+++ b/lib/private/setup.php
@@ -184,16 +184,6 @@ class Setup {
 				'hint' => $this->l10n->t('Please remove the open_basedir setting within your php.ini or switch to 64-bit PHP.')
 			);
 		}
-		if(!function_exists('curl_init') && PHP_INT_SIZE === 4) {
-			$errors[] = array(
-				'error' => $this->l10n->t(
-					'It seems that this %s instance is running on a 32-bit PHP environment and cURL is not installed. ' .
-					'This will lead to problems with files over 4 GB and is highly discouraged.',
-					$this->defaults->getName()
-				),
-				'hint' => $this->l10n->t('Please install the cURL extension and restart your webserver.')
-			);
-		}
 
 		return array(
 			'hasSQLite' => isset($databases['sqlite']),
diff --git a/tests/lib/httphelper.php b/tests/lib/httphelper.php
index 48d6543f1f208b59bacb3ae729e42dad2c4bab6e..fe76f984258ebcda9f6e9b5d4dcf97f5c1a7b18c 100644
--- a/tests/lib/httphelper.php
+++ b/tests/lib/httphelper.php
@@ -40,49 +40,6 @@ class TestHTTPHelper extends \Test\TestCase {
 		);
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Note: Not using a dataprovider because onConsecutiveCalls expects not
-	 * an array but the function arguments directly
-	 */
-	public function testGetFinalLocationOfURLValid() {
-		$url = 'https://www.owncloud.org/enterprise/';
-		$expected = 'https://www.owncloud.com/enterprise/';
-		$this->httpHelperMock->expects($this->any())
-			->method('getHeaders')
-			->will($this->onConsecutiveCalls(
-				array('Location' => 'http://www.owncloud.com/enterprise/'),
-				array('Location' => 'https://www.owncloud.com/enterprise/')
-			));
-		$result = $this->httpHelperMock->getFinalLocationOfURL($url);
-		$this->assertSame($expected, $result);
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Note: Not using a dataprovider because onConsecutiveCalls expects not
-	 * an array but the function arguments directly
-	 */
-	public function testGetFinalLocationOfURLInvalid() {
-		$url = 'https://www.owncloud.org/enterprise/';
-		$expected = 'http://www.owncloud.com/enterprise/';
-		$this->httpHelperMock->expects($this->any())
-			->method('getHeaders')
-			->will($this->onConsecutiveCalls(
-				array('Location' => 'http://www.owncloud.com/enterprise/'),
-				array('Location' => 'file://etc/passwd'),
-				array('Location' => 'http://www.example.com/')
-			));
-		$result = $this->httpHelperMock->getFinalLocationOfURL($url);
-		$this->assertSame($expected, $result);
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * @expectedException \Exception
-	 * @expectedExceptionMessage URL must begin with HTTPS or HTTP.
-	 */
-	public function testGetFinalLocationOfURLException() {
-		$this->httpHelperMock->getFinalLocationOfURL('file://etc/passwd');
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * @dataProvider isHttpTestData
 	 */
@@ -90,11 +47,10 @@ class TestHTTPHelper extends \Test\TestCase {
 			$this->assertSame($expected, $this->httpHelperMock->isHTTPURL($url));
 	}
 
-
 	/**
 	 * @dataProvider postParameters
 	 */
-	public function testassemblePostParameters($parameterList, $expectedResult) {
+	public function testAssemblePostParameters($parameterList, $expectedResult) {
 		$helper = \OC::$server->getHTTPHelper();
 		$result = \Test_Helper::invokePrivate($helper, 'assemblePostParameters', array($parameterList));
 		$this->assertSame($expectedResult, $result);
@@ -107,6 +63,4 @@ class TestHTTPHelper extends \Test\TestCase {
 			array(array(), ''),
 		);
 	}
-
-
 }