diff --git a/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.h b/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.h
index 1f4e8b4eb634d02db365f038a4dd0af007a9ed45..1a1721174ef04de8150d0a5e4d0dffc9c2ca7308 100644
--- a/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.h
+++ b/backends/twitter/Requests/ProfileImageRequest.h
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 #define PROFILEIMAGE_H
 
 #include "../ThreadPool.h"
-#include "../libtwitcurl/curl/curl.h"
 #include "../TwitterResponseParser.h"
 #include "transport/logging.h"
 #include "transport/config.h"
@@ -25,49 +24,27 @@ class ProfileImageRequest : public Thread
 	unsigned int reqID;
 	boost::function< void (std::string&, std::string&, std::string&, int, std::string&) > callBack;
 
+	std::string ip, port, puser, ppasswd;
 
 	bool success;
-	CURL *curlhandle;
-	
+
 	std::string error;
 	std::string callbackdata;
-	char curl_errorbuffer[1024];
-	bool fetchImage();
-    static int curlCallback( char* data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, ProfileImageRequest *obj);
 
 	public:
 	ProfileImageRequest(Config *config, const std::string &_user, const std::string &_buddy, const std::string &_url, unsigned int _reqID,
 			     boost::function< void (std::string&, std::string&, std::string&, int, std::string&) >  cb) {
-		
-		curlhandle = curl_easy_init();
-		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXY, NULL);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, NULL);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, (long)CURLAUTH_ANY);
 
-		/************ Set proxy if available *****************************************/
 		if(CONFIG_HAS_KEY(config,"proxy.server")) {
-			std::string ip = CONFIG_STRING(config,"proxy.server");
+			ip = CONFIG_STRING(config,"proxy.server");
 
 			std::ostringstream out; 
 			out << CONFIG_INT(config,"proxy.port");
-			std::string port = out.str();
-
-			std::string puser = CONFIG_STRING(config,"proxy.user");
-			std::string ppasswd = CONFIG_STRING(config,"proxy.password");
-	
-			if(ip != "localhost" && port != "0") {
-				/* Set proxy details in cURL */
-				std::string proxyIpPort = ip + ":" + port;
-				curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXY, proxyIpPort.c_str());
+			port = out.str();
 
-				/* Prepare username and password for proxy server */
-				if(puser.length() && ppasswd.length()) {
-					std::string proxyUserPass = puser + ":" + ppasswd;
-					curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, proxyUserPass.c_str());
-				}
-			}
+			puser = CONFIG_STRING(config,"proxy.user");
+			ppasswd = CONFIG_STRING(config,"proxy.password");
 		}
-		/*****************************************************************************/
 
 		user = _user;
 		buddy = _buddy;
@@ -77,10 +54,6 @@ class ProfileImageRequest : public Thread
 	}
 
 	~ProfileImageRequest() {
-		if(curlhandle) {
-			curl_easy_cleanup(curlhandle);
-			curlhandle = NULL;
-		}
 	}
 
 	void run();