diff --git a/image_proxy.php b/image_proxy.php
index 6575edf..4e9756d 100644
--- a/image_proxy.php
+++ b/image_proxy.php
@@ -1,21 +1,15 @@
 <?php
 
-    $config = require "config.php";
-    require "misc/tools.php";
+require "misc/tools.php";
 
-    $url = $_REQUEST["url"];
-    $requested_root_domain = get_root_domain($url);
+$url = $_REQUEST["url"];
+$allowed_domains = array("pinimg.com", "i.pinimg.com", "pinterest.com");
 
-    $allowed_domains = array("pinimg.com", "i.pinimg.com", "pinterest.com");
-
-    if (in_array($requested_root_domain, $allowed_domains))
-    {
-      $image = $url;
-      $image_src = request($image);
-
-      header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
-      echo $image_src;
-    }
+if (in_array(get_root_domain($url), $allowed_domains))
+{
+  header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
+  echo request($url);
+}
 ?>
 
-// basically stolen from LibreX - https://github.com/hnhx/LibreX
+// somewhat stolen from github.com/hnhx/librex
diff --git a/misc/tools.php b/misc/tools.php
index e077189..e13f8ec 100644
--- a/misc/tools.php
+++ b/misc/tools.php
@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@
 
     function request($url)
     {
-        global $config;
-
         $ch = curl_init($url);
-        curl_setopt_array($ch, $config->curl_settings);
+//      curl_setopt_array($ch, $config->curl_settings);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
         $response = curl_exec($ch);
 
         return $response;
@@ -241,4 +241,4 @@
     }
 ?>
 
-//basically stolen from LibreX - https://github.com/hnhx/LibreX
+//basically completely stolen from LibreX - https://github.com/hnhx/LibreX