diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 2bf58ab..5695afb 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 	"name": "athlon1600/php-proxy",
 	"type": "library",
 	"keywords": ["php proxy", "proxy script", "php web proxy", "web proxy", "php proxy script"],
+	"license": "MIT",
 	"homepage": "https://www.php-proxy.com/",
 	"require": {
 		"ext-curl": "*",
-		"symfony/event-dispatcher": "~3.2"
 	},
 	"suggest": {
 		"predis/predis": "For caching purposes"
diff --git a/src/Event/ProxyEvent.php b/src/Event/ProxyEvent.php
index 1cfddec..8c707bb 100644
--- a/src/Event/ProxyEvent.php
+++ b/src/Event/ProxyEvent.php
@@ -2,11 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace Proxy\Event;
 
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Event;
-
-// http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/event_dispatcher/generic_event.html
-class ProxyEvent extends Event implements \ArrayAccess {
-
+class ProxyEvent implements \ArrayAccess {
 	private $data;
 	
 	public function __construct($data = array()){
diff --git a/src/Plugin/AbstractPlugin.php b/src/Plugin/AbstractPlugin.php
index 405c33b..605cee3 100644
--- a/src/Plugin/AbstractPlugin.php
+++ b/src/Plugin/AbstractPlugin.php
@@ -2,12 +2,10 @@
 
 namespace Proxy\Plugin;
 
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcherInterface;
 use Proxy\Event\ProxyEvent;
 
-abstract class AbstractPlugin implements EventSubscriberInterface {
-
+abstract class AbstractPlugin {
+	
 	// apply these methods only to those events whose request URL passes this filter
 	protected $url_pattern;
 	
@@ -27,26 +25,40 @@ public function onCompleted(ProxyEvent $event){
 		// fired after the full response=headers+body has been read - will only be called on "non-streaming" responses
 	}
 	
-	// dispatch based on filter
-	final public function route(ProxyEvent $event, $event_name, EventDispatcherInterface $dispatcher){
+	final public function subscribe($dispatcher){
+		
+		$dispatcher->addListener('request.before_send', function($event){
+			$this->route('request.before_send', $event);
+		});
+		
+		$dispatcher->addListener('request.sent', function($event){
+			$this->route('request.sent', $event);
+		});
+		
+		$dispatcher->addListener('curl.callback.write', function($event){
+			$this->route('curl.callback.write', $event);
+		});
+		
+		$dispatcher->addListener('request.complete', function($event){
+			$this->route('request.complete', $event);
+		});
+	}
 	
+	// dispatch based on filter
+	final private function route($event_name, ProxyEvent $event){
 		$url = $event['request']->getUri();
 		
 		// url filter provided and current request url does not match it
 		if($this->url_pattern){
-		    if(strpos($this->url_pattern, '/') === 0){
-			    if(!preg_match($this->url_pattern, $url)) 
+			if(starts_with($this->url_pattern, '/') && preg_match($this->url_pattern, $url) !== 1){
 				return;
-			} 
-			else
-			{
-			    if(stripos($url, $this->url_pattern) === false) 
+			} else if(stripos($url, $this->url_pattern) === false){
 				return;
 			}
 		}
 		
 		switch($event_name){
-		
+			
 			case 'request.before_send':
 				$this->onBeforeRequest($event);
 			break;
@@ -64,17 +76,6 @@ final public function route(ProxyEvent $event, $event_name, EventDispatcherInter
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-	
-	// This method returns an array indexed by event names and whose values are either the method name to call 
-	// or an array composed of the method name to call and a priority.
-	final public static function getSubscribedEvents(){
-		return array(
-			'request.before_send' => 'route',
-			'request.sent' => 'route',
-			'curl.callback.write' => 'route',
-			'request.complete' => 'route'
-		);
-	}
 }
 
 ?>
diff --git a/src/Plugin/ProxifyPlugin.php b/src/Plugin/ProxifyPlugin.php
index cf82354..3165428 100644
--- a/src/Plugin/ProxifyPlugin.php
+++ b/src/Plugin/ProxifyPlugin.php
@@ -12,10 +12,9 @@ class ProxifyPlugin extends AbstractPlugin {
 	private $base_url = '';
 	
 	private function css_url($matches){
-	
-		$url = trim($matches[1]);
 		
-		if(stripos($url, 'data:') === 0){
+		$url = trim($matches[1]);
+		if(starts_with($url, 'data:')){
 			return $matches[0];
 		}
 		
@@ -33,7 +32,8 @@ private function html_attr($matches){
 		// could be empty?
 		$url = trim($matches[2]);
 		
-		if(stripos($url, 'data:') === 0 || stripos($url, 'magnet:') === 0 || stripos($url, 'about:') === 0 || stripos($url, 'javascript:') === 0 || stripos($url, 'mailto:') === 0 || stripos($url, 'tel:') === 0 || stripos($url, 'ios-app:') === 0 || stripos($url, 'android-app:') === 0){
+		$schemes = array('data:', 'magnet:', 'about:', 'javascript:', 'mailto:', 'tel:', 'ios-app:', 'android-app:');
+		if(starts_with($url, $schemes)){
 			return $matches[0];
 		}
 		
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ private function meta_refresh($matches){
 	
 	// <title>, <base>, <link>, <style>, <meta>, <script>, <noscript>
 	private function proxify_head($str){
-
+		
 		// let's replace page titles with something custom
 		if(Config::get('replace_title')){
 			$str = preg_replace('/<title[^>]*>(.*?)<\/title>/is', '<title>'.Config::get('replace_title').'</title>', $str);
@@ -137,9 +137,10 @@ private function proxify_css($str){
 	}
 	
 	public function onCompleted(ProxyEvent $event){
-	
+		
 		// to be used when proxifying all the relative links
 		$this->base_url = $event['request']->getUri();
+		$url_host = parse_url($this->base_url, PHP_URL_HOST);
 		
 		$response = $event['response'];
 		$content_type = $response->headers->get('content-type');
@@ -147,19 +148,16 @@ public function onCompleted(ProxyEvent $event){
 		$str = $response->getContent();
 		
 		// DO NOT do any proxification on .js files and text/plain content type
-		if($content_type == 'text/javascript' || $content_type == 'application/javascript' || $content_type == 'application/x-javascript' || $content_type == 'text/plain'){
+		$no_proxify = array('text/javascript', 'application/javascript', 'application/x-javascript', 'text/plain');
+		if(in_array($content_type, $no_proxify)){
 			return;
 		}
 		
 		// remove JS from urls
-		$js_remove = Config::get('js_remove');
-		if(is_array($js_remove)){
-			$domain = parse_url($this->base_url, PHP_URL_HOST);
-			
-			foreach($js_remove as $pattern){
-				if(strpos($domain, $pattern) !== false){
-					$str = Html::remove_scripts($str);
-				}
+		$js_remove = (array)Config::get('js_remove');
+		foreach($js_remove as $pattern){
+			if(strpos($url_host, $pattern) !== false){
+				$str = Html::remove_scripts($str);
 			}
 		}
 		
diff --git a/src/Proxy.php b/src/Proxy.php
index cf2ae6d..5c1797d 100644
--- a/src/Proxy.php
+++ b/src/Proxy.php
@@ -2,20 +2,15 @@
 
 namespace Proxy;
 
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcher;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Event;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\GenericEvent;
-
-use Proxy\Config;
 use Proxy\Event\ProxyEvent;
 use Proxy\Http\Request;
 use Proxy\Http\Response;
+use Proxy\Config;
 
 class Proxy {
-
-	// proxy version!
-	const VERSION = '5.0.1';
+	
+	// Proxy script version
+	const VERSION = '5.1.0';
 	
 	private $dispatcher;
 	
@@ -28,7 +23,7 @@ class Proxy {
 	private $status_found = false;
 	
 	public function __construct(){
-		$this->dispatcher = new EventDispatcher();
+		// do nothing for now
 	}
 	
 	public function setOutputBuffering($output_buffering){
@@ -36,7 +31,6 @@ public function setOutputBuffering($output_buffering){
 	}
 	
 	private function header_callback($ch, $headers){
-
 		$parts = explode(":", $headers, 2);
 		
 		// extract status code
@@ -60,7 +54,7 @@ private function header_callback($ch, $headers){
 			$event = new ProxyEvent(array('request' => $this->request, 'response' => $this->response, 'proxy' => &$this));
 			
 			// this is the end of headers - last line is always empty - notify the dispatcher about this
-			$this->dispatcher->dispatch('request.sent', $event);
+			$this->dispatch('request.sent', $event);
 		}
 		
 		return strlen($headers);
@@ -70,7 +64,7 @@ private function write_callback($ch, $str){
 	
 		$len = strlen($str);
 		
-		$this->dispatcher->dispatch('curl.callback.write', new ProxyEvent(array(
+		$this->dispatch('curl.callback.write', new ProxyEvent(array(
 			'request' => $this->request,
 			'data' => $str
 		)));
@@ -83,8 +77,34 @@ private function write_callback($ch, $str){
 		return $len;
 	}
 	
-	public function getEventDispatcher(){
-		return $this->dispatcher;
+	// TODO: move this all into its own Dispatcher class?
+	// https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/blob/5.3/src/Event/Emitter.php
+	// https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.0/src/Illuminate/Events/Dispatcher.php#L72
+	private $listeners = array();
+	
+	public function addListener($event, $callback, $priority = 0){
+		$this->listeners[$event][$priority][] = $callback;
+	}
+	
+	public function addSubscriber($subscriber){
+		if(method_exists($subscriber, 'subscribe')){
+			$subscriber->subscribe($this);
+		}
+	}
+	
+	private function dispatch($event_name, $event){
+		
+		if(isset($this->listeners[$event_name])){
+			$temp = (array)$this->listeners[$event_name];
+			
+			foreach($temp as $priority => $listeners){
+				foreach( (array)$listeners as $listener){
+					if(is_callable($listener) ){
+						$listener($event);
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	
 	public function forward(Request $request, $url){
@@ -122,11 +142,13 @@ public function forward(Request $request, $url){
 		$options[CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION] = array($this, 'write_callback');
 		
 		// Notify any listeners that the request is ready to be sent, and this is your last chance to make any modifications.
-		$this->dispatcher->dispatch('request.before_send', new ProxyEvent(array('request' => $this->request, 'response' => $this->response)));
+		$this->dispatch('request.before_send', new ProxyEvent(array(
+			'request' => $this->request,
+			'response' => $this->response
+		)));
 		
 		// We may not even need to send this request if response is already available somewhere (CachePlugin)
 		if($this->request->params->has('request.complete')){
-			
 			// do nothing?
 		} else {
 		
@@ -146,9 +168,7 @@ public function forward(Request $request, $url){
 			
 			// there must have been an error if at this point
 			if(!$result){
-					
 				$error = sprintf('(%d) %s', curl_errno($ch), curl_error($ch));
-			
 				throw new \Exception($error);
 			}
 			
@@ -159,7 +179,10 @@ public function forward(Request $request, $url){
 			$this->output_buffer = null;
 		}
 		
-		$this->dispatcher->dispatch('request.complete', new ProxyEvent(array('request' => $this->request, 'response' => $this->response)));
+		$this->dispatch('request.complete', new ProxyEvent(array(
+			'request' => $this->request,
+			'response' => $this->response
+		)));
 		
 		return $this->response;
 	}
diff --git a/src/helpers.php b/src/helpers.php
index f71e392..1eaae4a 100644
--- a/src/helpers.php
+++ b/src/helpers.php
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ function starts_with($haystack, $needles){
 	return false;
 }
 
+function str_before($subject, $search){
+	return $search === '' ? $subject : explode($search, $subject)[0];
+}
+
 
 function is_html($content_type){
 	return clean_content_type($content_type) == 'text/html';