diff --git a/inc/Readability.php b/inc/Readability.php
index c50bf2efa..2ce90f6dd 100644
--- a/inc/Readability.php
+++ b/inc/Readability.php
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class Readability
 	public $debug = false;
 	protected $body = null; // 
 	protected $bodyCache = null; // Cache the body HTML in case we need to re-use it later
-	protected $flags = self::FLAG_CLEAN_CONDITIONALLY; // 1 | 2 | 4;   // Start with all flags set.
+	protected $flags =  self::FLAG_CLEAN_CONDITIONALLY; // 1 | 2 | 4;   // Start with all flags set.
 	protected $success = false; // indicates whether we were able to extract or not
 	
 	/**
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class Readability
 	public $regexps = array(
 		'unlikelyCandidates' => '/combx|comment|comments|community|disqus|extra|foot|header|menu|remark|rss|shoutbox|sidebar|sponsor|ad-break|agegate|pagination|pager|popup|tweet|twitter/i',
 		'okMaybeItsACandidate' => '/and|article|body|column|main|shadow/i',
-		'positive' => '/article|body|content|entry|hentry|main|page|pagination|post|text|blog|story/i',
+		'positive' => '/article|body|content|entry|hentry|main|page|pagination|post|text|blog|story|attachment/i',
 		'negative' => '/combx|comment|comments|com-|contact|foot|footer|footnote|masthead|media|meta|outbrain|promo|related|scroll|shoutbox|sidebar|sponsor|shopping|tags|tool|widget/i',
 		'divToPElements' => '/<(a|blockquote|dl|div|ol|p|pre|table|ul)/i',
 		'replaceBrs' => '/(<br[^>]*>[ \n\r\t]*){2,}/i',
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class Readability
 	* Create instance of Readability
 	* @param string UTF-8 encoded string
 	* @param string (optional) URL associated with HTML (used for footnotes)
-	*/	
+	*/
 	function __construct($html, $url=null)
 	{
 		/* Turn all double br's into p's */
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ class Readability
 			$articleContent = $this->dom->createElement('div');
 			$articleContent->setAttribute('id', 'readability-content');
 			$articleContent->innerHTML = '<p>Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.</p>';		
+			return $this->success;
 		}
 		
 		$overlay->setAttribute('id', 'readOverlay');
diff --git a/inc/functions.php b/inc/functions.php
index 750d430e1..b830b616e 100644
--- a/inc/functions.php
+++ b/inc/functions.php
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ function get_external_file($url)
         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
 
+		// FOR SSL do not verified certificate
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE );
+
         // FeedBurner requires a proper USER-AGENT...
         curl_setopt($curl, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, true);
         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip, deflate");
@@ -54,7 +58,15 @@ function get_external_file($url)
     } else {
 
         // create http context and add timeout and user-agent
-        $context = stream_context_create(array('http'=>array('timeout' => $timeout,'header'=> "User-Agent: ".$useragent,/*spoot Mozilla Firefox*/'follow_location' => true)));
+        $context = stream_context_create(array(
+								'http'=>array('timeout' => $timeout,
+										'header'=> "User-Agent: ".$useragent,	/*spoot Mozilla Firefox*/
+										'follow_location' => true),
+								// FOR SSL do not verified certificate
+								'ssl' => array('verify_peer' => false,
+										'allow_self_signed' => true)
+								)
+						);
 
         // only download page lesser than 4MB
         $data = @file_get_contents($url, false, $context, -1, 4000000); // We download at most 4 MB from source.
@@ -98,6 +110,8 @@ function get_external_file($url)
  */
 function prepare_url($url)
 {
+    global $msg;
+
     $parametres = array();
     $url        = html_entity_decode(trim($url));
 
@@ -108,14 +122,20 @@ function prepare_url($url)
     $i=strpos($url,'#xtor=RSS-'); if ($i!==false) $url=substr($url,0,$i);
 
     $title = $url;
-    if (!preg_match('!^https?://!i', $url))
-        $url = 'http://' . $url;
+	$html = Encoding::toUTF8(get_external_file($url,15));
+	// If get_external_file if not able to retrieve HTTPS content try the same URL with HTTP protocol
+	if (!preg_match('!^https?://!i', $url) && (!isset($html) || strlen($html) <= 0)) {
+			$url = 'http://' . $url;
+			$html = Encoding::toUTF8(get_external_file($url,15));
+	}
 
-    $html = Encoding::toUTF8(get_external_file($url,15));
     if (isset($html) and strlen($html) > 0)
     {
         $r = new Readability($html, $url);
+		
         $r->convertLinksToFootnotes = CONVERT_LINKS_FOOTNOTES;
+	$r->revertForcedParagraphElements = REVERT_FORCED_PARAGRAPH_ELEMENTS;
+
         if($r->init())
         {
             $content = $r->articleContent->innerHTML;
@@ -362,4 +382,4 @@ function logm($message)
 {
     $t = strval(date('Y/m/d_H:i:s')).' - '.$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"].' - '.strval($message)."\n";
     file_put_contents('./log.txt',$t,FILE_APPEND);
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}