diff --git a/src/server/slavefuncs.c b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
--- a/src/server/slavefuncs.c
+++ b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
@@ -560,3 +560,89 @@ void slaveTest(){
    }
 }
 
+
+/* simpleSlave functions */
+
+/** Memory struct for curl */
+struct _web_memorystruct {
+  char *memory;
+  size_t size;
+};
+
+static void *_web_myrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
+
+static void *_web_myrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
+{
+  /* There might be a realloc() out there that doesn't like reallocing
+     NULL pointers, so we take care of it here */
+  if(ptr)
+    return realloc(ptr, size);
+  else
+    return malloc(size);
+}
+
+static size_t _web_writememorycallback(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *data)
+{
+  size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
+  struct _web_memorystruct *mem = (struct _web_memorystruct *)data;
+
+  mem->memory = _web_myrealloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
+  if (mem->memory) {
+    memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), ptr, realsize);
+    mem->size += realsize;
+    mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
+  }
+  return realsize;
+}
+
+struct _web_memorystruct _web_getrequest(char *url){
+  fprintf(stderr,"Preparing to get request at %s",url);
+
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res;
+  struct _web_memorystruct chunk;
+
+  chunk.memory=NULL; /* we expect realloc(NULL, size) to work */
+  chunk.size = 0;    /* no data at this point */
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, _web_writememorycallback);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");
+
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  }
+
+  /* we're done with libcurl, so clean it up */
+  curl_global_cleanup();
+
+  return chunk; // 0 is OK, 1 is 404 or other error
+
+}
+
+void _web_finishframe(int slavekey, char *slavepass, int jobnum, int framenum){
+  char *url;
+  _distren_asprintf(&url,"http://dev.distren.org/slave/act.php?mode=finishframe&slavekey=%d&slavepass=%s&jobnum=%d&framenum=%d", slavekey, slavepass, jobnum, framenum);
+  struct _web_memorystruct data = _web_getrequest(url);
+
+  if(data.memory)
+    free(data.memory);
+}
+
+void _web_startframe(int slavekey, char *slavepass, int jobnum, int framenum){
+
+
+}
+
+void _web_getwork(int slavekey, char *slavepass, int *jobnum, int *framenum){
+
+
+}
+
+void _web_setrenderpower(int slavekey, char *slavepass, int jobnum, int framenum){
+
+
+}