Admin panel slow was: Update to GetSimple 3.2.1 slows down admin panel

[shawn_a]

FYI this is what a normal curl query looks like.

PHP Code:

get_api_details: core 
get_api_details: http://get-simple.info/api/start/v3.php?v=3.2.3b1
API timeout: 500
cache check for http://get-simple.info/api/start/v3.php?v=3.2.3b1 495f6fab503f2007953b7c7c2f34771f.txt
API via curl
curl version: 
Array
(
    [version_number] => 462595
    [age] => 2
    [features] => 541
    [ssl_version_number] => 0
    [version] => 7.15.3
    [host] => i686-pc-linux-gnu
    [ssl_version] =>  OpenSSL/0.9.8b
    [libz_version] => 1.2.3
    [protocols] => Array
        (
            [0] => tftp
            [1] => ftp
            [2] => telnet
            [3] => dict
            [4] => ldap
            [5] => http
            [6] => file
            [7] => https
            [8] => ftps
        )

)

Curl info:
Array
(
    [url] => http://get-simple.info/api/start/v3.php?v=3.2.3b1
    [content_type] => text/html; charset=UTF-8
    [http_code] => 200
    [header_size] => 279
    [request_size] => 80
    [filetime] => -1
    [ssl_verify_result] => 0
    [redirect_count] => 0
    [total_time] => 2.532524
    [namelookup_time] => 0.004075
    [connect_time] => 0.016782
    [pretransfer_time] => 0.016822
    [size_upload] => 0
    [size_download] => 104
    [speed_download] => 41
    [speed_upload] => 0
    [download_content_length] => 0
    [upload_content_length] => 0
    [starttransfer_time] => 2.532475
    [redirect_time] => 0
    [request_header] => GET /api/start/v3.php?v=3.2.3b1 HTTP/1.1
Host: get-simple.info
Accept: */*


)

Curl Verbose: 

Curl Data: 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:55:18 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=7200
Expires: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:55:16 GMT
X-Powered-By: PleskLin
Vary: Accept-Encoding

{"status":"2","latest":"3.2.1","your_version":"3.2.3b1","message":"You are living on the bleeding edge"}
API JSON:
stdClass Object
(
    [status] => 2
    [latest] => 3.2.1
    [your_version] => 3.2.3b1
    [message] => You are living on the bleeding edge
)