public function httpGetRequest($url)
    {
        // create curl resource
        $curl = curl_init();

        // set url
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

        //return the transfer as a string
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        // $output contains the output string
        $response = curl_exec($curl);

        $resolve = $this->curlResponse->resolve($curl, $response);

        curl_close($curl);

        return $resolve;
    }