diff --git a/interface/lib/classes/aps_crawler.inc.php b/interface/lib/classes/aps_crawler.inc.php
index 7bb2650e09daf6cb87f627b2b2df23feaa58ac81..58a83057ce8c627a31aa21ff3310d81bfb43838f 100644
--- a/interface/lib/classes/aps_crawler.inc.php
+++ b/interface/lib/classes/aps_crawler.inc.php
@@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ class ApsCrawler extends ApsBase
 			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0);
 			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
 			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);
+			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 
 			curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $conn[$i]);
 		}
@@ -283,6 +285,7 @@ class ApsCrawler extends ApsBase
 					$apps_count = substr_count($apps[$j], '<opensearch:totalResults>0</opensearch:totalResults>');
 					if($apps_count == 0) // obviously this vendor provides one or more apps
 						{
+						try {
 						// Rename namespaces and register them
 						$xml = str_replace("xmlns=", "ns=", $apps[$j]);
 						$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
@@ -456,9 +459,15 @@ class ApsCrawler extends ApsBase
 
 						unset($sxe);
 						$apps_in_repo++;
+						} catch (Exception $e) {
+							// We dont want the crawler to fail on xml parse errors
+							$app->log($this->log_prefix.$e->getMessage(), LOGLEVEL_WARN);
+							//echo 'Caught exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), "\n";
+						}
 					}
 				}
 				//var_dump($apps);
+				//echo print_r($apps_to_dl).'<br>-------------------<br>';
 
 				// For memory reasons, unset the current vendor and his apps
 				unset($apps);
diff --git a/server/lib/classes/aps_installer.inc.php b/server/lib/classes/aps_installer.inc.php
index 3a4fa9ad1fa2c1bded9879fac73681bc4232c4bd..d6ff4f700e1ab034d90bb1e47ffaed81433c433f 100644
--- a/server/lib/classes/aps_installer.inc.php
+++ b/server/lib/classes/aps_installer.inc.php
@@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ class ApsInstaller extends ApsBase
 			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0);
 			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
 			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+			curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
 
 			curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $conn[$i]);
 		}
@@ -696,6 +697,7 @@ class ApsInstaller extends ApsBase
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
 			if(curl_exec($ch) === false) $app->log(curl_error($ch), 1);
 			fclose($fh);
 			curl_close($ch);