protected function _init(array $curl_options)
	{
		$options = array(
			CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE,
			CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => FALSE,
			CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
			CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,
			CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10
		);

		$options += $curl_options;

		$curl = curl_init();

		curl_setopt_array($curl, $options);

		return $curl;
	}