diff --git a/source/de/anomic/http/httpc.java b/source/de/anomic/http/httpc.java
index b7699eec9..248e8a642 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/http/httpc.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/http/httpc.java
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ do upload
                 con = httpc.getInstance(host, port, timeout, ssl, theRemoteProxyConfig);
             }
 
-            httpc.response res = con.GET(path, null);
+            httpc.response res = con.GET(path, requestHeader);
             if (res.status.startsWith("2")) {
                 return res.writeContent();
             }
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
index cf0cbcc6a..aa3c7117b 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
@@ -687,12 +687,17 @@ public final class yacySeedDB {
     private boolean checkCache(ArrayList uv, URL seedURL) throws IOException {        
         // check if the result can be retrieved again
         // TODO: should we check the useProxy4Yacy option here???
+        httpHeader reqHeader = new httpHeader();
+        reqHeader.put(httpHeader.PRAGMA, "no-cache");
+        reqHeader.put(httpHeader.CACHE_CONTROL, "no-cache"); // httpc uses HTTP/1.0 is this necessa
+ry?
         ArrayList check  = httpc.wget(
                 seedURL, 
                 10000, 
                 null, 
                 null, 
-                sb.remoteProxyConfig
+                sb.remoteProxyConfig,
+                reqHeader
         );
         
         if (check == null) {
@@ -815,4 +820,4 @@ public final class yacySeedDB {
         
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}