diff --git a/inc/HTTPClient.php b/inc/HTTPClient.php
index 0c3b4f435a8f0d12570f15be6db31e4223a9441c..e769b0c93e60e56b205360f5609299f534ba4d62 100644
--- a/inc/HTTPClient.php
+++ b/inc/HTTPClient.php
@@ -35,6 +35,29 @@ class DokuHTTPClient extends HTTPClient {
         $this->proxy_pass = conf_decodeString($conf['proxy']['pass']);
         $this->proxy_ssl  = $conf['proxy']['ssl'];
     }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Wraps an event around the parent function
+     *
+     * @triggers HTTPCLIENT_REQUEST_SEND
+     * @author   Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
+     */
+    function sendRequest($url,$data='',$method='GET'){
+        $httpdata = array('url'    => $url,
+                          'data'   => $data,
+                          'method' => $method);
+        $evt = new Doku_Event('HTTPCLIENT_REQUEST_SEND',$httpdata);
+        if($evt->advise_before()){
+            $url    = $httpdata['url'];
+            $data   = $httpdata['data'];
+            $method = $httpdata['method'];
+        }
+        $evt->advise_after();
+        unset($evt);
+        return parent::sendRequest($url,$data,$method);
+    }
+
 }
 
 /**
@@ -165,19 +188,6 @@ class HTTPClient {
             unset($this->headers['Accept-encoding']);
         }
 
-
-        $httpdata = array('url'    => $url,
-                          'data'   => $data,
-                          'method' => $method);
-        $evt = new Doku_Event('HTTPCLIENT_REQUEST_SEND',$httpdata);
-        if($evt->advise_before()){
-            $url    = $httpdata['url'];
-            $data   = $httpdata['data'];
-            $method = $httpdata['method'];
-        }
-        $evt->advise_after();
-        unset($evt);
-
         // parse URL into bits
         $uri = parse_url($url);
         $server = $uri['host'];