diff --git a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
index c639923e3b..e121778296 100644
--- a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
+++ b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
@@ -1175,20 +1175,15 @@ class BBCode
 			return $text;
 		}
 
-		// Only fetch the header, not the content
-		$stamp1 = microtime(true);
-
-		$ch = @curl_init($match[1]);
-		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
-		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, DI::httpRequest()->getUserAgent());
-		@curl_exec($ch);
-		$curl_info = @curl_getinfo($ch);
-
-		DI::profiler()->saveTimestamp($stamp1, "network");
+		$curlResult = DI::httpRequest()->head($match[1], ['timeout' => DI::config()->get('system', 'xrd_timeout')]);
+		if ($curlResult->isSuccess()) {
+			$mimetype = $curlResult->getHeader('Content-Type');
+		} else {
+			$mimetype = '';
+		}
 
 		// if its a link to a picture then embed this picture
-		if (substr($curl_info['content_type'], 0, 6) == 'image/') {
+		if (substr($mimetype, 0, 6) == 'image/') {
 			$text = '[img]' . $match[1] . '[/img]';
 		} else {
 			if (!empty($match[3])) {