diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/build b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..a443bc7610
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/build
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+. config/options $1
+
+export PYTHONXCPREFIX="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr"
+export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+
+python setup.py build --cross-compile
+python setup.py install -O0 --no-compile --prefix /usr --root .install
+
+rm -rf .install/usr/bin
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/install b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..a9c8b9924b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/install
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+. config/options $1
+
+cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/.install/* $INSTALL
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/meta b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f193ebdfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="pycurl"
+PKG_VERSION="7.19.0"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2"
+PKG_SITE="http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/"
+PKG_URL="http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/download/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS="Python distribute curl"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python distribute distutilscross curl"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="python/web"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="pycurl: a Python interface to libcurl"
+PKG_LONGDESC="PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl. PycURL can be used to fetch objects identified by a URL from a Python program, similar to the urllib Python module. PycURL is mature, very fast, and supports a lot of features."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-fix-do_curl_reset-refcount.patch b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-fix-do_curl_reset-refcount.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7e20b15c2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-fix-do_curl_reset-refcount.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+--- a/src/pycurl.c	
++++ a/src/pycurl.c	
+@@ -1452,6 +1452,7 @@ do_curl_reset(CurlObject *self)
+         }
+     }
+ 
++    Py_INCREF(Py_None);
+     return Py_None;
+ }
+ 
+--- a/tests/test_internals.py	
++++ a/tests/test_internals.py	
+@@ -245,6 +245,11 @@ if 1 and gc:
+     if opts.verbose >= 1:
+         print "Tracked objects:", len(gc.get_objects())
+ 
++if 1:
++    # Ensure that the refcounting error in "reset" is fixed:
++    for i in xrange(100000):
++        c = Curl()
++        c.reset()
+ 
+ # /***********************************************************************
+ # // done
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-no-static-libs.patch b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-no-static-libs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..06ac2c1f1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-no-static-libs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- pycurl/setup.py~	2008-04-22 17:00:45.000000000 +0300
++++ pycurl/setup.py	2008-07-03 21:53:36.000000000 +0300
+@@ -97,8 +97,7 @@
+         else:
+             extra_compile_args.append(e)
+     libs = split_quoted(
+-        os.popen("'%s' --libs" % CURL_CONFIG).read()+\
+-        os.popen("'%s' --static-libs" % CURL_CONFIG).read())
++        os.popen("'%s' --libs" % CURL_CONFIG).read())
+     for e in libs:
+         if e[:2] == "-l":
+             libraries.append(e[2:])
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-setuptools-0.1.patch b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-setuptools-0.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ceba310a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/web/pycurl/patches/pycurl-7.19.0-setuptools-0.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -Naur pycurl-7.19.0/setup.py pycurl-7.19.0.patch/setup.py
+--- pycurl-7.19.0/setup.py	2008-09-09 19:40:34.000000000 +0200
++++ pycurl-7.19.0.patch/setup.py	2011-09-29 02:07:22.584412664 +0200
+@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
+ 
+ import glob, os, re, sys, string
+ import distutils
+-from distutils.core import setup
+-from distutils.extension import Extension
++from setuptools import setup
++from setuptools import Extension
+ from distutils.util import split_quoted
+ from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+