diff --git a/quovadis/quovadis.php b/quovadis/quovadis.php
index 96c824bb3aee798ea1cdcd2719367d26dbfd80c4..225fba361ad358f6b3d97b04f022817f74a73274 100644
--- a/quovadis/quovadis.php
+++ b/quovadis/quovadis.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ini_set('display_errors', 1);
 ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
 error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
-require_once 'config.php';
+require_once('config.php');
 use Ramsey\Uuid\Uuid;
 use RestService\RestService;
 
@@ -13,14 +13,35 @@ function check_username($username) {
 	return is_array(posix_getpwnam($username));
 }
 
-function get_desec_txt($name) {
-	$restService = new RestService();
-// $response = $restService
-//     ->setEndpoint('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com')
-//    ->get('/posts/1');
 
-// curl https://desec.io/api/v1/domains/{name}/rrsets/{subname}/{type}/ \
-//    --header "Authorization: Token {token}"
+/**
+	*   Remove the first and last quote from a quoted string of text
+	*  
+	*   From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9734758/remove-quotes-from-start-and-end-of-string-in-php/25353877#25353877
+	*   @param mixed $text
+	*     */
+function stripQuotes($text) {
+	  return preg_replace('/^(\'(.*)\'|"(.*)")$/', '$2$3', $text);
+} 
+
+function get_desec_txt($config, $name) {
+	$restService = new RestService();
+	$path = "/api/v1/domains/" . $config['QV_DOMAIN'] . "/rrsets/" . $name . "/TXT/";
+	$auth_string = "Token ". $config['QV_DESEC_API'];
+	
+	$response = $restService
+		->setEndpoint('https://desec.io')
+		->setRequestHeaders([
+			'Authorization' => $auth_string
+			])
+		->get($path, [], [], false);
+
+	$result = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
+	if (array_key_exists('records', $result)) {
+		return stripQuotes($result['records'][0]);
+	} else {
+		return "";
+	}
 }
 
 function check_api_key($api_key) {
@@ -72,8 +93,11 @@ $leaf = new Leaf\App;
 
 // Add routes
 $leaf->get('/', function () use($leaf) {
+   $config=get_config();
+   $r = get_desec_txt($config, "mtearle-test");
     // since the response object is directly tied to the leaf instance
-   $leaf->response()->markup('<h5>My first Leaf app</h5>');
+   $html = '<h5>My first Leaf app</h5>' . $r;
+   $leaf->response()->markup($html);
 });
 
 $leaf->post('/register', function () use($leaf) {