diff --git a/src/server/slavefuncs.c b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
--- a/src/server/slavefuncs.c
+++ b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ xmlNodePtr xml_quickxpath(xmlXPathContex
 }
 
 
-/** Stub stub stubbiness ugh */
+/** Stub stub stubbiness ugh @TODO: Kill me. */
 void tell_the_server(char *stuff){
 }
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ size_t curl_writetodisk(void *ptr, size_
     return fwrite(ptr, size, nmemb, stream);
   }
 
-/** Gets a URL with cURL and saves it to disk */
+/** Retrieves a URL with cURL and saves it to disk */
 int curlget(char *url, char *out){
   CURL *curl;
   CURLcode res;
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ int curlget(char *url, char *out){
   res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
   curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
   }
-  return 0;
+  return res; // 0 means OK, nonzero means AAAH badness
 }
 
 /** Posts a file to a url with cUrl */