diff --git a/src/nsqphp/Lookup/Nsqlookupd.php b/src/nsqphp/Lookup/Nsqlookupd.php
index 4a0ebc0..6cbafdd 100644
--- a/src/nsqphp/Lookup/Nsqlookupd.php
+++ b/src/nsqphp/Lookup/Nsqlookupd.php
@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ public function __construct($hosts = NULL, $connectionTimeout = 1, $responseTime
         } else {
             $this->hosts = explode(',', $hosts);
         }
+
+        foreach ($this->hosts as &$host) {
+            // ensure host; otherwise go with default (:4161)
+            if (strpos($host, ':') === FALSE) {
+                $host .= ':4161';
+            }
+        }
+        unset( $host );
+
         $this->connectionTimeout = $connectionTimeout;
         $this->responseTimeout = $responseTimeout;
     }
@@ -57,10 +66,7 @@ public function __construct($hosts = NULL, $connectionTimeout = 1, $responseTime
      * Lookup hosts for a given topic
      * 
      * @param string $topic
-     * 
-     * @throws LookupException If we cannot talk to / get back invalid response
-     *      from nsqlookupd
-     * 
+     *
      * @return array Should return array [] = host:port
      */
     public function lookupHosts($topic)
@@ -68,35 +74,9 @@ public function lookupHosts($topic)
         $lookupHosts = array();
         
         foreach ($this->hosts as $host) {
-            // ensure host; otherwise go with default (:4161)
-            if (strpos($host, ':') === FALSE) {
-                $host .= ':4161';
-            }
-            
             $url = "http://{$host}/lookup?topic=" . urlencode($topic);
-            $ch = curl_init($url);
-            $options = array(
-                CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
-                CURLOPT_HEADER         => FALSE,
-                CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => FALSE,
-                CURLOPT_ENCODING       => '',
-                CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'nsqphp',
-                CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => $this->connectionTimeout,
-                CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => $this->responseTimeout,
-                CURLOPT_FAILONERROR    => TRUE
-                );
-            curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
-            $r = curl_exec($ch);
-            $r = json_decode($r, TRUE);
-            
-            // don't fail since we can't distinguish between bad topic and general failure
-            /*
-            if (!is_array($r)) {
-                throw new LookupException(
-                        "Error talking to nsqlookupd via $url"
-                        );
-            }*/
-            
+            $r = $this->_request( $url );
+
             $producers = isset($r['data'], $r['data']['producers']) ? $r['data']['producers'] : array();
             foreach ($producers as $prod) {
                 if (isset($prod['address'])) {
@@ -108,10 +88,68 @@ public function lookupHosts($topic)
                 if (!in_array($h, $lookupHosts)) {
                     $lookupHosts[] = $h;
                 }
-                
+
             }
         }
 
         return $lookupHosts;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * List all known topics
+     *
+     * @return array Should return array [] = string
+     */
+    public function topics()
+    {
+        $topics = array();
+
+        foreach ($this->hosts as $host) {
+            $url = "http://{$host}/topics";
+            $r = $this->_request( $url );
+
+            $hostTopics = isset($r['data'], $r['data']['topics']) ? $r['data']['topics'] : array();
+            $topics = array_merge($topics, $hostTopics);
+        }
+
+        return $topics;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Make an http request to nsqlookupd
+     *
+     * @param string $url
+     *
+     * @throws LookupException If we cannot talk to / get back invalid response
+     *      from nsqlookupd
+     *
+     * @return array Should return json-decoded response payload
+     */
+    protected function _request( $url ) {
+        $ch = curl_init($url);
+        $options = array(
+            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
+            CURLOPT_HEADER         => FALSE,
+            CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => FALSE,
+            CURLOPT_ENCODING       => '',
+            CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'nsqphp',
+            CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => $this->connectionTimeout,
+            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => $this->responseTimeout,
+            CURLOPT_FAILONERROR    => TRUE
+            );
+
+        curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
+        $r = curl_exec($ch);
+        $r = json_decode($r, TRUE);
+
+        // don't fail since we can't distinguish between bad topic and general failure
+        /*
+        if (!is_array($r)) {
+            throw new LookupException(
+                    "Error talking to nsqlookupd via $url"
+                    );
+        }*/
+
+        return $r;
+    }
 }