diff --git a/modules/services/handler.php b/modules/services/handler.php
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+++ b/modules/services/handler.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * A straight passthrough for the mythbackend status web page (usually on
+ * port 6544)
+ *
+ * @license     GPL
+ *
+ * @package     MythWeb
+ * @subpackage  Status
+ *
+/**/
+
+// Get the address/port of the master machine, enclose IPv6 with []
+    $masterhost = preg_replace('@(.*?:.*)@', "[$1]", setting('MasterServerIP'));
+    $statusport = setting('BackendStatusPort', '%');
+
+// Get Path
+    $url = "http://$masterhost:$statusport/".implode("/", array_slice($Path, 1)).'?'.http_build_query($_GET);
+
+// Make sure the content is interpreted as UTF-8
+    header('Content-Type: charset=UTF-8');
+
+// Load the status page
+    if (function_exists('curl_exec')) {
+        $ch = curl_init($url);
+        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
+        if ($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']) {
+            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Accept: ".$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']));
+        }
+        $status = curl_exec($ch);
+        curl_close($ch);
+    }
+    else if (function_exists('file_get_contents')) {
+        $status = file_get_contents($url);
+    }
+    else {
+        $status = implode("\n", file($url));
+    }
+
+    print($status);
+
+// Yup, that really is it.
+    exit;
diff --git a/modules/services/init.php b/modules/services/init.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * Initialization routines for the MythWeb Services Proxy
+ *
+ * @license     GPL
+ *
+ * @package     MythWeb
+ * @subpackage  Services
+ *
+/**/
+
+// The Services module is always enabled.
+    $Modules['services'] = array('path'        => 'services',
+                                 'hidden'      => true,
+                                 'name'        => t('Services'),
+                            );
+