diff --git a/library/Requests/Transport/cURL.php b/library/Requests/Transport/cURL.php
index b3b81f5ba..fc00d5c99 100755
--- a/library/Requests/Transport/cURL.php
+++ b/library/Requests/Transport/cURL.php
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ public function process_response($response, $options) {
 	 * @param string $headers Header string
 	 * @return integer Length of provided header
 	 */
-	protected function stream_headers($handle, $headers) {
+	public function stream_headers($handle, $headers) {
 		// Why do we do this? cURL will send both the final response and any
 		// interim responses, such as a 100 Continue. We don't need that.
 		// (We may want to keep this somewhere just in case)