diff --git a/src/Feed.php b/src/Feed.php
index 8fcba58..6a46488 100644
--- a/src/Feed.php
+++ b/src/Feed.php
@@ -193,7 +193,14 @@ private static function loadXml($url, $user, $pass)
 			throw new FeedException('Cannot load feed.');
 		}
 
-		return new SimpleXMLElement($data, LIBXML_NOWARNING | LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOCDATA);
+		$doc = new DOMDocument();
+		$doc->loadXML($data, LIBXML_NOWARNING | LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOCDATA);
+
+		if ($doc->documentElement !== NULL) {
+			return new SimpleXMLElement($doc->saveXML(), LIBXML_NOWARNING | LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOCDATA);
+		} else {
+			return new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title></title><link></link><description></description></channel></rss>', LIBXML_NOWARNING | LIBXML_NOERROR);
+		}
 	}
 
 
@@ -218,6 +225,7 @@ private static function httpRequest($url, $user, $pass)
 			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
 			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
 			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // no echo, just return result
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, '');
 			if (!ini_get('open_basedir')) {
 				curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // sometime is useful :)
 			}