diff -urN orig/src/proxy.c ../gaim-1.5.0/src/proxy.c
--- orig/src/proxy.c	2005-05-14 15:33:56.000000000 -0400
+++ ../gaim-1.5.0/src/proxy.c	2006-06-22 11:52:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -1898,3 +1898,15 @@
 		g_thread_init(NULL);
 #endif
 }
+
+/* returns 0 if not using global http proxy, 1 otherwise */
+int gaim_use_global_http_proxy()
+{
+    return  (((gaim_global_proxy_get_info() == GAIM_PROXY_USE_ENVVAR) &&
+              (g_getenv("HTTP_PROXY") ||
+               g_getenv("http_proxy") ||
+               g_getenv("HTTPPROXY")))
+             || 
+             ( gaim_global_proxy_get_info() ==  GAIM_PROXY_HTTP)) ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
diff -urN orig/src/proxy.h ../gaim-1.5.0/src/proxy.h
--- orig/src/proxy.h	2005-07-06 16:02:12.000000000 -0400
+++ ../gaim-1.5.0/src/proxy.h	2006-06-22 11:52:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@
 int gaim_proxy_connect_socks5(GaimProxyInfo *gpi, const char *host, int port,
 					   GaimInputFunction func, gpointer data);
 
+
+int gaim_use_global_http_proxy(void);
+    
+
 /*@}*/
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
diff -urN orig/src/util.c ../gaim-1.5.0/src/util.c
--- orig/src/util.c	2005-08-11 20:53:33.000000000 -0400
+++ ../gaim-1.5.0/src/util.c	2006-06-22 11:55:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -2700,7 +2700,10 @@
 	if (!gfud->sentreq)
 	{
 		char buf[1024];
-
+        int useproxy;
+        
+        useproxy = gaim_use_global_http_proxy();
+        
 		if (gfud->user_agent)
 		{
 			/* Host header is not forbidden in HTTP/1.0 requests, and HTTP/1.1
@@ -2712,8 +2715,8 @@
 					   "GET %s%s HTTP/%s\r\n"
 					   "User-Agent: %s\r\n"
 					   "Host: %s\r\n\r\n",
-					   (gfud->full ? "" : "/"),
-					   (gfud->full ? gfud->url : gfud->website.page),
+					   ( (gfud->full && useproxy) ? "" : "/"),
+					   ( (gfud->full && useproxy) ? gfud->url : gfud->website.page),
 					   (gfud->http11 ? "1.1" : "1.0"),
 					   gfud->user_agent, gfud->website.address);
 		}
@@ -2722,8 +2725,8 @@
 			g_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf),
 					   "GET %s%s HTTP/%s\r\n"
 					   "Host: %s\r\n\r\n",
-					   (gfud->full ? "" : "/"),
-					   (gfud->full ? gfud->url : gfud->website.page),
+					   ( (gfud->full && useproxy) ? "" : "/"),
+					   ( (gfud->full && useproxy) ? gfud->url : gfud->website.page),
 					   (gfud->http11 ? "1.1" : "1.0"),
 					   gfud->website.address);
 		}