diff --git a/php/elFinder.class.php b/php/elFinder.class.php
index 682e67ec5..4dbfcf1af 100644
--- a/php/elFinder.class.php
+++ b/php/elFinder.class.php
@@ -2706,7 +2706,6 @@ protected function curl_get_contents(&$url, $timeout, $redirect_max, $ua, $outfp
             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $outfp);
         } else {
             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
         }
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 1);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, $timeout);