diff --git a/include/wx/url.h b/include/wx/url.h
index aa224f7f3b..f8f54af963 100644
--- a/include/wx/url.h
+++ b/include/wx/url.h
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ public:
 
   static void SetDefaultProxy(const wxString& url_proxy);
   void SetProxy(const wxString& url_proxy);
+
+  static wxString ConvertToValidURI(const wxString& uri);
 };
 
 #endif
diff --git a/src/common/http.cpp b/src/common/http.cpp
index 19b1edf023..041e5a5e01 100644
--- a/src/common/http.cpp
+++ b/src/common/http.cpp
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ bool wxHTTP::ParseHeaders()
     if (line.Length() == 0)
       break;
 
-    printf("Header: %s\n", WXSTRINGCAST line);
     tokenzr.SetString(line, " :\t\n\r");
     if (!tokenzr.HasMoreToken())
       return FALSE;
@@ -198,7 +197,7 @@ bool wxHTTP::BuildRequest(const wxString& path, wxHTTP_Req req)
   SetFlags(NONE);
   Notify(FALSE);
 
-  sprintf(buf, "%s %s HTTP/1.0\n\r", tmp_buf, (const char*)pathbuf);
+  sprintf(buf, "%s %s\n\r", tmp_buf, pathbuf);
   Write(buf, strlen(buf));
   SendHeaders();
   sprintf(buf, "\n\r");
diff --git a/src/common/url.cpp b/src/common/url.cpp
index ef280923ab..89b1f889cc 100644
--- a/src/common/url.cpp
+++ b/src/common/url.cpp
@@ -316,5 +316,10 @@ void wxURL::SetProxy(const wxString& url_proxy)
   m_path = url_proxy;
 }
 
+wxString wxURL::ConvertToValidURI(const wxString& uri)
+{
+  return wxString(uri);
+}
+
 #endif
   // wxUSE_SOCKETS