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Hello people,

Two issues:

- just wondering: why isn't the wordpress plugin pre-authenticated? I guess it is intentional, since there is no auto-authorize checkbox next to the download button, but I cannot see a reason why?
- Some hosts like Dreamhost have URL file access disabled, so you get errors like
[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in
....

Here's a diff for another software library with the same problem: curl php library instead of file_get_contents is used, if available:
http://code.google.com/p/hkit/source/...