diff --git a/bridges/Arte7Bridge.php b/bridges/Arte7Bridge.php
index 1162d17..16952dc 100644
--- a/bridges/Arte7Bridge.php
+++ b/bridges/Arte7Bridge.php
@@ -64,13 +64,11 @@ class Arte7Bridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 			. $lang
 			. ($category != null ? '&category.code=' . $category : '');
 
-		$context = array(
-			'http' => array(
-				'header' => 'Authorization: Bearer '. self::API_TOKEN
-			)
+		$header = array(
+			'Authorization: Bearer ' . self::API_TOKEN
 		);
 
-		$input = getContents($url, false, stream_context_create($context)) or die('Could not request ARTE.');
+		$input = getContents($url, $header) or die('Could not request ARTE.');
 		$input_json = json_decode($input, true);
 
 		foreach($input_json['videos'] as $element) {
diff --git a/bridges/FacebookBridge.php b/bridges/FacebookBridge.php
index b0b4324..7d6b249 100644
--- a/bridges/FacebookBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/FacebookBridge.php
@@ -96,17 +96,15 @@ class FacebookBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 				$captcha_action = $_SESSION['captcha_action'];
 				$captcha_fields = $_SESSION['captcha_fields'];
 				$captcha_fields['captcha_response'] = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/", "", $_POST['captcha_response']);
-				$http_options = array(
-					'http' => array(
-						'method'  => 'POST',
-						'user_agent' => ini_get('user_agent'),
-						'header' => array("Content-type:
- application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nReferer: $captcha_action\r\nCookie: noscript=1\r\n"),
-						'content' => http_build_query($captcha_fields)
-					),
+
+				$header = array("Content-type:
+application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nReferer: $captcha_action\r\nCookie: noscript=1\r\n");
+				$opts = array(
+					CURLOPT_POST => 1,
+					CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($captcha_fields)
 				);
-				$context = stream_context_create($http_options);
-				$html = getContents($captcha_action, false, $context);
+
+				$html = getContents($captcha_action, $header, $opts);
 
 				if($html === false) {
 					returnServerError('Failed to submit captcha response back to Facebook');
@@ -120,15 +118,7 @@ class FacebookBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 
 		//Retrieve page contents
 		if(is_null($html)) {
-			$http_options = array(
-				'http' => array(
-					'method' => 'GET',
-					'user_agent' => ini_get('user_agent'),
-					'header' => 'Accept-Language: ' . getEnv('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE') . "\r\n"
-				)
-			);
-
-			$context = stream_context_create($http_options);
+			$header = array('Accept-Language: ' . getEnv('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE') . "\r\n");
 
 			// First character cannot be a forward slash
 			if(strpos($this->getInput('u'), "/") === 0) {
@@ -136,14 +126,10 @@ class FacebookBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 			}
 
 			if(!strpos($this->getInput('u'), "/")) {
-				$html = getSimpleHTMLDOM(self::URI . urlencode($this->getInput('u')) . '?_fb_noscript=1',
-				false,
-				$context)
+				$html = getSimpleHTMLDOM(self::URI . urlencode($this->getInput('u')) . '?_fb_noscript=1', $header)
 					or returnServerError('No results for this query.');
 			} else {
-				$html = getSimpleHTMLDOM(self::URI . 'pages/' . $this->getInput('u') . '?_fb_noscript=1',
-				false,
-				$context)
+				$html = getSimpleHTMLDOM(self::URI . 'pages/' . $this->getInput('u') . '?_fb_noscript=1', $header)
 					or returnServerError('No results for this query.');
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/bridges/VkBridge.php b/bridges/VkBridge.php
index 4eba961..d8099a5 100644
--- a/bridges/VkBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/VkBridge.php
@@ -109,19 +109,9 @@ class VkBridge extends BridgeAbstract
 	{
 		ini_set('user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0');
 
-		$opts = array(
-			'http' => array(
-				'method' => "GET",
-				'user_agent' => ini_get('user_agent'),
-				'accept_encoding' => 'gzip',
-				'header' => "Accept-language: en\r\n 
-					Cookie: remixlang=3\r\n"
-			)
-		);
+		$header = array("Accept-language: en\r\nCookie: remixlang=3\r\n");
 
-		$context = stream_context_create($opts);
-
-		return getContents($this->getURI(), false, $context);
+		return getContents($this->getURI(), $header);
 	}
 
 
diff --git a/bridges/YoutubeBridge.php b/bridges/YoutubeBridge.php
index 8ec1f14..5923686 100644
--- a/bridges/YoutubeBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/YoutubeBridge.php
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ class YoutubeBridge extends BridgeAbstract {
 	private function ytGetSimpleHTMLDOM($url){
 		return getSimpleHTMLDOM($url,
 			$use_include_path = false,
-			$context = null,
-			$offset = 0,
+			$header = array(),
+			$opts = array(),
 			$maxLen = null,
 			$lowercase = true,
 			$forceTagsClosed = true,