diff --git a/crawl_server/remote_http.py b/crawl_server/remote_http.py
index 37cf3c1..2d60728 100644
--- a/crawl_server/remote_http.py
+++ b/crawl_server/remote_http.py
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
+import pycurl
+from io import BytesIO
+
 from crawl_server import logger
 from urllib.parse import unquote, urljoin
 import os
 from html.parser import HTMLParser
 from itertools import repeat
 from crawl_server.crawler import RemoteDirectory, File
-import requests
-from requests.exceptions import RequestException
 from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
 import config
 from dateutil.parser import parse as parse_date
+from pycurl import Curl
 import hashlib
 
 import urllib3
@@ -94,10 +96,29 @@ class HttpDirectory(RemoteDirectory):
 
     def __init__(self, url):
         super().__init__(url)
-        self.session = requests.Session()
-        self.session.headers = HttpDirectory.HEADERS
-        self.session.verify = False
-        self.session.max_redirects = 1
+        self.curl = None
+        self.curl_head = None
+        self.init_curl()
+
+    def init_curl(self):
+
+        self.curl = Curl()
+        self.curl.setopt(self.curl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
+        self.curl.setopt(self.curl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
+        self.curl.setopt(pycurl.TIMEOUT, HttpDirectory.TIMEOUT)
+
+        self.curl_head = self._curl_handle()
+
+    def _curl_handle(self):
+
+        curl_head = Curl()
+        curl_head.setopt(self.curl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
+        curl_head.setopt(self.curl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
+        curl_head.setopt(pycurl.NOBODY, 1)
+        curl_head.setopt(pycurl.TIMEOUT, HttpDirectory.TIMEOUT)
+
+        return curl_head
+
 
     def list_dir(self, path):
 
@@ -139,7 +160,8 @@ class HttpDirectory(RemoteDirectory):
         if len(urls_to_request) > 150:
             # Many urls, use multi-threaded solution
             pool = ThreadPool(processes=10)
-            files = pool.starmap(HttpDirectory._request_file, zip(repeat(self), urls_to_request))
+            handles = [self._curl_handle() for _ in range(len(urls_to_request))]
+            files = pool.starmap(self._request_file, zip(handles, urls_to_request, repeat(self.base_url)))
             pool.close()
             for file in files:
                 if file:
@@ -147,31 +169,38 @@ class HttpDirectory(RemoteDirectory):
         else:
             # Too few urls to create thread pool
             for url in urls_to_request:
-                file = self._request_file(url)
+                file = self._request_file(self.curl_head, url, self.base_url)
                 if file:
                     yield file
 
-    def _request_file(self, url):
+    @staticmethod
+    def _request_file(curl, url, base_url):
 
         retries = HttpDirectory.MAX_RETRIES
         while retries > 0:
             try:
-                r = self.session.head(url, allow_redirects=False, timeout=HttpDirectory.TIMEOUT)
+                raw_headers = BytesIO()
+                curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
+                curl.setopt(pycurl.HEADERFUNCTION, raw_headers.write)
+                curl.perform()
 
-                stripped_url = url[len(self.base_url) - 1:]
+                stripped_url = url[len(base_url) - 1:]
+                headers = HttpDirectory._parse_dict_header(raw_headers.getvalue().decode("utf-8", errors="ignore"))
+                raw_headers.close()
 
                 path, name = os.path.split(stripped_url)
-                date = r.headers.get("Last-Modified", "1970-01-01")
+                date = headers.get("Last-Modified", "1970-01-01")
                 return File(
                     path=unquote(path).strip("/"),
                     name=unquote(name),
-                    size=int(r.headers.get("Content-Length", -1)),
+                    size=int(headers.get("Content-Length", -1)),
                     mtime=int(parse_date(date).timestamp()),
                     is_dir=False
                 )
-            except RequestException:
-                self.session.close()
+            except pycurl.error as e:
+                curl.close()
                 retries -= 1
+                raise e
 
         logger.debug("TimeoutError - _request_file")
         raise TimeoutError
@@ -180,17 +209,19 @@ class HttpDirectory(RemoteDirectory):
         retries = HttpDirectory.MAX_RETRIES
         while retries > 0:
             try:
-                r = self.session.get(url, timeout=HttpDirectory.TIMEOUT)
-                try:
-                    return r.content.decode(r.encoding if r.encoding else "utf-8", errors="ignore")
-                except LookupError:
-                    # Unsupported encoding
-                    return r.content.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore")
-            except RequestException:
-                self.session.close()
-                retries -= 1
+                content = BytesIO()
+                self.curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
+                self.curl.setopt(pycurl.WRITEDATA, content)
+                self.curl.perform()
 
-        logger.debug("TimeoutError - _stream_body")
+                return content.getvalue().decode("utf-8", errors="ignore")
+            except pycurl.error as e:
+                self.curl.close()
+                retries -= 1
+                print(e)
+                raise e
+
+        logger.debug("TimeoutError - _fetch_body")
         raise TimeoutError
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -222,8 +253,19 @@ class HttpDirectory(RemoteDirectory):
         if "?" in link.href:
             return True
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _parse_dict_header(raw):
+        headers = dict()
+        for line in raw.split("\r\n")[1:]:  # Ignore first 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK' line
+            if line:
+                k, v = line.split(":", maxsplit=1)
+                headers[k.strip()] = v.strip()
+
+        return headers
+
     def close(self):
-        self.session.close()
+        self.curl.close()
         logger.debug("Closing HTTPRemoteDirectory for " + self.base_url)
+        self.init_curl()
 
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4bb0370..b5a81c6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@ flask_httpauth
 ujson
 urllib3
 pyOpenSSL
-pybloom-live
\ No newline at end of file
+pybloom-live
+pycurl
+lxml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/search/search.py b/search/search.py
index 90f0bd3..f65f539 100644
--- a/search/search.py
+++ b/search/search.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class ElasticSearchEngine(SearchEngine):
     def import_json(self, in_lines, website_id: int):
 
         import_every = 400
-        cooldown_time = 0.6
+        cooldown_time = 0
 
         docs = []