diff --git a/bridges/CADBridge.php b/bridges/CADBridge.php
index 86dfdb0..595160e 100644
--- a/bridges/CADBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/CADBridge.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class CADBridge extends FeedExpander {
 	}
 
 	private function CADExtractContent($url) {
-		$html3 = $this->get_cached($url);
+		$html3 = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url);
 
 		// The request might fail due to missing https support or wrong URL
 		if($html3 == false)
diff --git a/bridges/CommonDreamsBridge.php b/bridges/CommonDreamsBridge.php
index e8a4af3..224b309 100644
--- a/bridges/CommonDreamsBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/CommonDreamsBridge.php
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class CommonDreamsBridge extends FeedExpander {
 	}
 
 	private function CommonDreamsExtractContent($url) {
-		$html3 = $this->get_cached($url);
+		$html3 = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url);
 		$text = $html3->find('div[class=field--type-text-with-summary]', 0)->innertext;
 		$html3->clear();
 		unset ($html3);
diff --git a/bridges/CpasbienBridge.php b/bridges/CpasbienBridge.php
index 829c596..10af594 100644
--- a/bridges/CpasbienBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/CpasbienBridge.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-class CpasbienBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract{
+class CpasbienBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 
     const MAINTAINER = "lagaisse";
     const NAME = "Cpasbien Bridge";
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class CpasbienBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract{
             if ($episode->getAttribute('class')=='ligne0' ||
                 $episode->getAttribute('class')=='ligne1')
             {
-                $htmlepisode=$this->get_cached($episode->find('a', 0)->getAttribute('href'));
+                $htmlepisode=$this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($episode->find('a', 0)->getAttribute('href'));
 
                 $item = array();
                 $item['author'] = $episode->find('a', 0)->text();
diff --git a/bridges/DauphineLibereBridge.php b/bridges/DauphineLibereBridge.php
index fe4775c..9e9aacd 100644
--- a/bridges/DauphineLibereBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/DauphineLibereBridge.php
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class DauphineLibereBridge extends FeedExpander {
     }
 
     private function ExtractContent($url) {
-        $html2 = $this->get_cached($url);
+        $html2 = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url);
         $text = $html2->find('div.column', 0)->innertext;
         $text = preg_replace('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', '', $text);
         return $text;
diff --git a/bridges/DeveloppezDotComBridge.php b/bridges/DeveloppezDotComBridge.php
index fe08d28..5cbd576 100644
--- a/bridges/DeveloppezDotComBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/DeveloppezDotComBridge.php
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class DeveloppezDotComBridge extends FeedExpander {
 	}
 
 	private function DeveloppezDotComExtractContent($url) {
-		$articleHTMLContent = $this->get_cached($url);
+		$articleHTMLContent = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url);
 		$text = $this->convert_smart_quotes($articleHTMLContent->find('div.content', 0)->innertext);
 		$text = utf8_encode($text);
 		return trim($text);
diff --git a/bridges/FreenewsBridge.php b/bridges/FreenewsBridge.php
index dbc46b9..1934e0b 100644
--- a/bridges/FreenewsBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/FreenewsBridge.php
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class FreenewsBridge extends FeedExpander {
     protected function parseItem($newsItem) {
         $item = $this->parseRSS_2_0_Item($newsItem);
         
-        $articlePage = $this->get_cached($item['uri']);
+        $articlePage = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($item['uri']);
         $content = $articlePage->find('.post-container', 0);
         $item['content'] = $content->innertext;
 
diff --git a/bridges/FuturaSciencesBridge.php b/bridges/FuturaSciencesBridge.php
index 2cf846c..73f1b53 100644
--- a/bridges/FuturaSciencesBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/FuturaSciencesBridge.php
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class FuturaSciencesBridge extends FeedExpander {
     protected function parseItem($newsItem){
         $item = $this->parseRSS_2_0_Item($newsItem);
         $item['uri'] = str_replace('#xtor=RSS-8', '', $item['uri']);
-        $article = $this->get_cached($item['uri']) 
+        $article = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($item['uri']) 
             or $this->returnServerError('Could not request Futura-Sciences: ' . $item['uri']);
         $item['content'] = $this->ExtractArticleContent($article);
         $item['author'] = empty($this->ExtractAuthor($article)) ? $item['author'] : $this->ExtractAuthor($article);
diff --git a/bridges/JapanExpoBridge.php b/bridges/JapanExpoBridge.php
index 4019ae8..dcd951a 100644
--- a/bridges/JapanExpoBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/JapanExpoBridge.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-class JapanExpoBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
+class JapanExpoBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 
     const MAINTAINER = 'Ginko';
     const NAME = 'Japan Expo Actualités';
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class JapanExpoBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
                   break;
                 }
 
-                $article_html = $this->get_cached($url) or $this->returnServerError('Could not request JapanExpo: '.$url);
+                $article_html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached('Could not request JapanExpo: '.$url);
                 $header = $article_html->find('header.pageHeadBox', 0);
                 $timestamp = strtotime($header->find('time', 0)->datetime);
                 $title_html = $header->find('div.section', 0)->next_sibling();
diff --git a/bridges/KununuBridge.php b/bridges/KununuBridge.php
index da159ce..a958b77 100644
--- a/bridges/KununuBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/KununuBridge.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-class KununuBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
+class KununuBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 	const MAINTAINER = "logmanoriginal";
 	const NAME = "Kununu Bridge";
 	const URI = "https://www.kununu.com/";
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class KununuBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
 	*/
 	private function extract_full_description($uri){
 		// Load full article
-		$html = $this->get_cached($uri);
+		$html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($uri);
 		if($html === false)
 			$this->returnServerError('Could not load full description!');
 
diff --git a/bridges/LeJournalDuGeekBridge.php b/bridges/LeJournalDuGeekBridge.php
index c723a2f..95bd960 100644
--- a/bridges/LeJournalDuGeekBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/LeJournalDuGeekBridge.php
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class LeJournalDuGeekBridge extends FeedExpander {
 	}
 
 	private function LeJournalDuGeekExtractContent($url) {
-		$articleHTMLContent = $this->get_cached($url);
+		$articleHTMLContent = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url);
 		$text = $articleHTMLContent->find('div.post-content', 0)->innertext;
 
 		foreach($articleHTMLContent->find('a.more') as $element) {
diff --git a/bridges/LeMondeInformatiqueBridge.php b/bridges/LeMondeInformatiqueBridge.php
index 010228a..f609517 100644
--- a/bridges/LeMondeInformatiqueBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/LeMondeInformatiqueBridge.php
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class LeMondeInformatiqueBridge extends FeedExpander {
 
     protected function parseItem($newsItem){
         $item = $this->parseRSS_1_0_Item($newsItem);
-        $article_html = $this->get_cached($item['uri']) 
+        $article_html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($item['uri']) 
             or $this->returnServerError('Could not request LeMondeInformatique: ' . $item['uri']);
         $item['content'] = $this->CleanArticle($article_html->find('div#article', 0)->innertext);
         $item['title'] = $article_html->find('h1.cleanprint-title', 0)->plaintext;
diff --git a/bridges/LichessBridge.php b/bridges/LichessBridge.php
index 638811d..6f64539 100644
--- a/bridges/LichessBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/LichessBridge.php
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class LichessBridge  extends FeedExpander {
     }
 
     private function retrieve_lichess_post($blog_post_uri){
-        $blog_post_html = $this->get_cached($blog_post_uri);
+        $blog_post_html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($blog_post_uri);
         $blog_post_div  = $blog_post_html->find('#lichess_blog', 0);
 
         $post_chapo   = $blog_post_div->find('.shortlede', 0)->innertext;
diff --git a/bridges/NextInpactBridge.php b/bridges/NextInpactBridge.php
index 815a236..3152b09 100644
--- a/bridges/NextInpactBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/NextInpactBridge.php
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class NextInpactBridge extends FeedExpander {
 	}
 
 	private function ExtractContent($url) {
-		$html2 = $this->get_cached($url);
+		$html2 = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url);
 		$text = '<p><em>'.$html2->find('span.sub_title', 0)->innertext.'</em></p>'
 			.'<p><img src="'.$html2->find('div.container_main_image_article', 0)->find('img.dedicated',0)->src.'" alt="-" /></p>'
 			.'<div>'.$html2->find('div[itemprop=articleBody]', 0)->innertext.'</div>';
diff --git a/bridges/NextgovBridge.php b/bridges/NextgovBridge.php
index 5d26ec5..d706119 100644
--- a/bridges/NextgovBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/NextgovBridge.php
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class NextgovBridge extends FeedExpander {
     }
 
     private function ExtractContent($url){
-        $article = $this->get_cached($url) 
+        $article = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url) 
             or $this->returnServerError('Could not request Nextgov: ' . $url);
 
         $contents = $article->find('div.wysiwyg', 0)->innertext;
diff --git a/bridges/NiceMatinBridge.php b/bridges/NiceMatinBridge.php
index 6d148ad..4e83cff 100644
--- a/bridges/NiceMatinBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/NiceMatinBridge.php
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class NiceMatinBridge extends FeedExpander {
 	}
 
 	private function NiceMatinExtractContent($url) {
-		$html = $this->get_cached($url);
+		$html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url);
 		if(!$html)
 			return 'Could not acquire content from url: ' . $url . '!';
 
diff --git a/bridges/NumeramaBridge.php b/bridges/NumeramaBridge.php
index ead340a..d018fbd 100644
--- a/bridges/NumeramaBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/NumeramaBridge.php
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class NumeramaBridge extends FeedExpander {
     }
 
     private function ExtractContent($url){
-        $article_html = $this->get_cached($url) or $this->returnServerError('Could not request Numerama: '.$url);
+        $article_html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached('Could not request Numerama: '.$url);
         $contents = $article_html->find('section[class=related-article]', 0)->innertext = ''; // remove related articles block
         $contents = '<img alt="" style="max-width:300px;" src="'.$article_html->find('meta[property=og:image]', 0)->getAttribute('content').'">'; // add post picture
         return  $contents . $article_html->find('article[class=post-content]', 0)->innertext; // extract the post
diff --git a/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php b/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php
index eee9283..3c3d216 100644
--- a/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class TheOatmealBridge extends FeedExpander{
     protected function parseItem($newsItem) {
         $item = $this->parseRSS_1_0_Item($newsItem);
 
-        $articlePage = $this->get_cached($item['uri']);
+        $articlePage = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($item['uri']);
         $content = $articlePage->find('#comic', 0);
         if(is_null($content)) // load alternative
             $content = $articlePage->find('#blog', 0);
diff --git a/bridges/WikipediaBridge.php b/bridges/WikipediaBridge.php
index d7a90dc..5feb429 100644
--- a/bridges/WikipediaBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/WikipediaBridge.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 define('WIKIPEDIA_SUBJECT_TFA', 0); // Today's featured article
 define('WIKIPEDIA_SUBJECT_DYK', 1); // Did you know...
 
-class WikipediaBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
+class WikipediaBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 	const MAINTAINER = 'logmanoriginal';
 	const NAME = 'Wikipedia bridge for many languages';
 	const URI = 'https://www.wikipedia.org/';
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class WikipediaBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
 	* Loads the full article from a given URI
 	*/
 	private function LoadFullArticle($uri){
-		$content_html = $this->get_cached($uri);
+		$content_html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($uri);
 
 		if(!$content_html)
 			$this->returnServerError('Could not load site: ' . $uri . '!');
diff --git a/bridges/WordPressBridge.php b/bridges/WordPressBridge.php
index 30e7e2a..6c7d5f6 100644
--- a/bridges/WordPressBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/WordPressBridge.php
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 define('WORDPRESS_TYPE_ATOM', 1); // Content is of type ATOM
 define('WORDPRESS_TYPE_RSS', 2); // Content is of type RSS
-class WordPressBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
+class WordPressBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 
 	public $sitename; // Name of the site
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class WordPressBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
 						$item['timestamp'] = strtotime($article->find('updated', 0)->innertext);
 					}
 
-					$article_html = $this->get_cached($item['uri']);
+					$article_html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($item['uri']);
 
 					// Attempt to find most common content div
 					if(!isset($item['content'])){
diff --git a/bridges/WorldOfTanksBridge.php b/bridges/WorldOfTanksBridge.php
index b723526..a3179be 100644
--- a/bridges/WorldOfTanksBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/WorldOfTanksBridge.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-class WorldOfTanksBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract{
+class WorldOfTanksBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 
     const MAINTAINER = "mitsukarenai";
     const NAME = "World of Tanks";
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class WorldOfTanksBridge extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract{
         $item['uri'] = self::URI.$infoLink->href;
         // now load that uri from cache
         $this->debugMessage("loading page ".$item['uri']);
-        $articlePage = $this->get_cached($item['uri']);
+        $articlePage = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($item['uri']);
         $content = $articlePage->find('.l-content', 0);
         HTMLSanitizer::defaultImageSrcTo($content, self::URI);
         $item['title'] = $content->find('h1', 0)->innertext;
diff --git a/lib/BridgeAbstract.php b/lib/BridgeAbstract.php
index f58e056..abcda79 100644
--- a/lib/BridgeAbstract.php
+++ b/lib/BridgeAbstract.php
@@ -386,4 +386,60 @@ abstract class BridgeAbstract implements BridgeInterface {
       , $defaultBRText
       , $defaultSpanText);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Maintain locally cached versions of pages to avoid multiple downloads.
+     * @param url url to cache
+     * @param duration duration of the cache file in seconds (default: 24h/86400s)
+     * @return content of the file as string
+     */
+    public function getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url
+    , $duration = 86400
+    , $use_include_path = false
+    , $context = null
+    , $offset = 0
+    , $maxLen = null
+    , $lowercase = true
+    , $forceTagsClosed = true
+    , $target_charset = DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET
+    , $stripRN = true
+    , $defaultBRText = DEFAULT_BR_TEXT
+    , $defaultSpanText = DEFAULT_SPAN_TEXT){
+        $this->debugMessage('Caching url ' . $url . ', duration ' . $duration);
+
+        $filepath = __DIR__ . '/../cache/pages/' . sha1($url) . '.cache';
+        $this->debugMessage('Cache file ' . $filepath);
+
+        if(file_exists($filepath) && filectime($filepath) < time() - $duration){
+            unlink ($filepath);
+            $this->debugMessage('Cached file deleted: ' . $filepath);
+        }
+
+        if(file_exists($filepath)){
+            $this->debugMessage('Loading cached file ' . $filepath);
+            touch($filepath);
+            $content = file_get_contents($filepath);
+        } else {
+            $this->debugMessage('Caching ' . $url . ' to ' . $filepath);
+            $dir = substr($filepath, 0, strrpos($filepath, '/'));
+
+            if(!is_dir($dir)){
+                $this->debugMessage('Creating directory ' . $dir);
+                mkdir($dir, 0777, true);
+            }
+
+            $content = $this->getContents($url, $use_include_path, $context, $offset, $maxLen);
+            if($content !== false){
+                file_put_contents($filepath, $content);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return str_get_html($content
+        , $lowercase
+        , $forceTagsClosed
+        , $target_charset
+        , $stripRN
+        , $defaultBRText
+        , $defaultSpanText);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/lib/FeedExpander.php b/lib/FeedExpander.php
index abaf121..5566f7c 100644
--- a/lib/FeedExpander.php
+++ b/lib/FeedExpander.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 require_once(__DIR__ . '/BridgeInterface.php');
-abstract class FeedExpander extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract {
+abstract class FeedExpander extends BridgeAbstract {
 
   private $name;
   private $uri;
diff --git a/lib/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php b/lib/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 364606e..0000000
--- a/lib/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-require_once(__DIR__ . '/BridgeInterface.php');
-/**
- * Extension of BridgeAbstract allowing caching of files downloaded over http.
- */
-abstract class HttpCachingBridgeAbstract extends BridgeAbstract {
-    /**
-     * Maintain locally cached versions of pages to download, to avoid multiple downloads.
-     * @param url url to cache
-     * @param duration duration of the cache file in seconds (default: 24h/86400s)
-     * @return content of the file as string
-     */
-    public function get_cached($url, $duration = 86400){
-        $this->debugMessage('Caching url ' . $url . ', duration ' . $duration);
-
-        $filepath = __DIR__ . '/../cache/pages/' . sha1($url) . '.cache';
-        $this->debugMessage('Cache file ' . $filepath);
-
-        if(file_exists($filepath) && filectime($filepath) < time() - $duration){
-            unlink ($filepath);
-            $this->debugMessage('Cached file deleted: ' . $filepath);
-        }
-
-        if(file_exists($filepath)){
-            $this->debugMessage('Loading cached file ' . $filepath);
-            touch($filepath);
-            $content = file_get_contents($filepath);
-        } else {
-            $this->debugMessage('Caching ' . $url . ' to ' . $filepath);
-            $dir = substr($filepath, 0, strrpos($filepath, '/'));
-
-            if(!is_dir($dir)){
-                $this->debugMessage('Creating directory ' . $dir);
-                mkdir($dir, 0777, true);
-            }
-
-            $content = $this->getContents($url);
-            if($content !== false){
-                file_put_contents($filepath, $content);
-            }
-        }
-
-        return str_get_html($content);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/lib/RssBridge.php b/lib/RssBridge.php
index 6dd2663..0728683 100644
--- a/lib/RssBridge.php
+++ b/lib/RssBridge.php
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ require __DIR__ . '/Format.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/FormatAbstract.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/Bridge.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/BridgeAbstract.php';
-require __DIR__ . '/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/FeedExpander.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/Cache.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/CacheAbstract.php';