diff --git a/public/include/lib/jsonRPCClient.php b/public/include/lib/jsonRPCClient.php
index 5fcb72a2..81f61d70 100644
--- a/public/include/lib/jsonRPCClient.php
+++ b/public/include/lib/jsonRPCClient.php
@@ -107,14 +107,15 @@ class jsonRPCClient {
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $url['user'] . ":" . $url['pass']);
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
-		$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
+		$response = curl_exec($ch);
+    if ($this->debug) $this->debug_output[] = 'Response: ' . $response;
+    $response = json_decode($response, true);
     $resultStatus = curl_getinfo($ch);
     if ($resultStatus['http_code'] != '200') {
       if ($resultStatus['http_code'] == '401') throw new Exception('RPC call did not return 200: Authentication failed');
       throw new Exception('RPC call did not return 200: HTTP error: ' . $resultStatus['http_code']);
     }
     if (curl_errno($ch)) throw new Exception('RPC call failed: ' . curl_error($ch));
-    if ($this->debug) $this->debug_output[] = 'Response: ' . $response;
 		curl_close($ch);
 
 		// final checks and return