diff --git a/ykval-synclib.php b/ykval-synclib.php
index 7822d04..f96e2d9 100644
--- a/ykval-synclib.php
+++ b/ykval-synclib.php
@@ -521,85 +521,6 @@ class SyncLib
     return retrieveURLasync("YK-VAL sync", $urls, $this->myLog, $ans_req, $match="status=OK", $returl=True, $timeout);
   }
 
-  /*
-   This function takes a list of URLs.  It will return the content of
-   the first successfully retrieved URL, whose content matches ^OK.
-   The request are sent asynchronously.  Some of the URLs can fail
-   with unknown host, connection errors, or network timeout, but as
-   long as one of the URLs given work, data will be returned.  If all
-   URLs fail, data from some URL that did not match parameter $match
-   (defaults to ^OK) is returned, or if all URLs failed, false.
-  */
-  function retrieveURLasync_old ($urls, $ans_req=1, $timeout=1.0) {
-    $mh = curl_multi_init();
-
-    $ch = array();
-    foreach ($urls as $id => $url) {
-      $this->log(LOG_DEBUG, "url in retrieveURLasync is " . $url);
-      $handle = curl_init();
-
-      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
-      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "YK-VAL");
-      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
-      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
-      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
-
-      curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $handle);
-
-      $ch[$handle] = $handle;
-    }
-
-    $str = false;
-    $ans_count = 0;
-    $ans_arr = array();
-
-    do {
-      while (($mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active)) == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM)
-	;
-
-      while ($info = curl_multi_info_read($mh)) {
-	debug ("YK-KSM multi", $info);
-	if ($info['result'] == CURLE_OK) {
-	  $str = curl_multi_getcontent($info['handle']);
-	  if (preg_match("/status=OK/", $str)) {
-	    $error = curl_error ($info['handle']);
-	    $errno = curl_errno ($info['handle']);
-	    $cinfo = curl_getinfo ($info['handle']);
-	    debug("YK-KSM errno/error: " . $errno . "/" . $error, $cinfo);
-	    $ans_count++;
-	    $ans_arr[]="url=" . $cinfo['url'] . "\n" . $str;
-	  }
-
-	  if ($ans_count >= $ans_req) {
-	    foreach ($ch as $h) {
-	      curl_multi_remove_handle ($mh, $h);
-	      curl_close ($h);
-	    }
-	    curl_multi_close ($mh);
-
-	    return $ans_arr;
-	  }
-
-	  curl_multi_remove_handle ($mh, $info['handle']);
-	  curl_close ($info['handle']);
-	  unset ($ch[$info['handle']]);
-	}
-
-	curl_multi_select ($mh);
-      }
-    } while($active);
-
-
-    foreach ($ch as $h) {
-      curl_multi_remove_handle ($mh, $h);
-      curl_close ($h);
-    }
-    curl_multi_close ($mh);
-
-    if ($ans_count>0) return $ans_arr;
-    else return $str;
-  }
-
 }
 
 ?>