diff --git a/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.cpp b/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.cpp
index aee8614b577a087aaa940447fd2b45331e8b3c04..5af984f654cfe9daab0810342fb700ee5c28ef01 100644
--- a/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.cpp
+++ b/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.cpp
@@ -1,50 +1,13 @@
 #include "ProfileImageRequest.h"
+#include "../HTTPRequest.h"
 DEFINE_LOGGER(logger, "ProfileImageRequest")
-
-int ProfileImageRequest::curlCallback(char* data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, ProfileImageRequest* obj)
-{
-    int writtenSize = 0;
-    if(obj && data) {
-       obj->callbackdata.append(data, size*nmemb);
-	   writtenSize = (int)(size*nmemb);
-    }
-    return writtenSize;
-}
-
-bool ProfileImageRequest::fetchImage()
-{
-	LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, user << " - Fetching  profile image");
-
-	curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, NULL);
-    curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
-    
-	img = "";
-	callbackdata = "";
-    memset(curl_errorbuffer, 0, 1024);
-	
-	curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, curl_errorbuffer);
-	curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, curlCallback);
-	curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, this);
-    	
-	/* Set http request and url */
-    curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
-    curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
-    curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
-    
-    /* Send http request and return status*/
-    return (CURLE_OK == curl_easy_perform(curlhandle));
-}
-
-
 void ProfileImageRequest::run() 
 {	
-	if(curlhandle == NULL) {
-		error = "Failed to init CURL!";
-		success = false;
-		return;
-	}
-	success = fetchImage();
-	if(!success) error.assign(curl_errorbuffer);
+	HTTPRequest req;
+	req.init();
+	req.setProxy(ip, port, puser, ppasswd);
+	success = req.GET(url, callbackdata);
+	if(!success) error.assign(req.getCurlError());
 }
 
 void ProfileImageRequest::finalize()
@@ -54,8 +17,6 @@ void ProfileImageRequest::finalize()
 		img = "";
 		callBack(user, buddy, img, reqID, error);
 	} else {
-		//std::string error = getErrorMessage(replyMsg);
-		//if(error.length()) LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger,  user << " - " << error)
 		LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, user << " - " << callbackdata);
 		img = callbackdata;
 		callBack(user, buddy, img, reqID, error);