diff --git a/plugins/generic/externalFeed/simplepie/SimplePie.inc.php b/plugins/generic/externalFeed/simplepie/SimplePie.inc.php
index 1a1a3af301f..01ae8271552 100644
--- a/plugins/generic/externalFeed/simplepie/SimplePie.inc.php
+++ b/plugins/generic/externalFeed/simplepie/SimplePie.inc.php
@@ -7677,6 +7677,13 @@ function SimplePie_File($url, $timeout = 10, $redirects = 5, $headers = null, $u
 					curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
 				}
 				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+				if ($httpProxyHost = Config::getVar('proxy', 'http_host')) {
+					curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_PROXY, $httpProxyHost);
+					curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, Config::getVar('proxy', 'http_port', '80'));
+					if ($username = Config::getVar('proxy', 'username')) {
+						curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $username . ':' . Config::getVar('proxy', 'password'));
+					}
+				}
 				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
 				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);