diff --git a/controllers/API.php b/controllers/API.php
index 337283b..69b9bc6 100644
--- a/controllers/API.php
+++ b/controllers/API.php
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class API {
 
       $found[$target] = null;
     } else {
-      $sourceData = $this->http->get($source);
+      $sourceData = $this->http->get($source, ['Accept: text/html, */*']);
 
       $doc = new DOMDocument();
       libxml_use_internal_errors(true); # suppress parse errors and warnings
diff --git a/controllers/Controller.php b/controllers/Controller.php
index 10475f3..47df9fa 100644
--- a/controllers/Controller.php
+++ b/controllers/Controller.php
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ class Controller {
     $sourceURL = $request->get('url');
 
     $client = new IndieWeb\MentionClient();
-    $source = $this->http->get($sourceURL);
+    $source = $this->http->get($sourceURL, ['Accept: text/html, */*']);
     $parsed = \Mf2\parse($source['body'], $sourceURL);
 
     $links = array_values($client->findOutgoingLinks($parsed));
diff --git a/lib/Telegraph/HTTP.php b/lib/Telegraph/HTTP.php
index 8044575..8e06270 100644
--- a/lib/Telegraph/HTTP.php
+++ b/lib/Telegraph/HTTP.php
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ namespace Telegraph;
 
 class HTTP {
 
-  public function get($url) {
+  public function get($url, $headers=array()) {
     $ch = curl_init($url);
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+    if(count($headers))
+      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
     $response = curl_exec($ch);