diff --git a/core/app.cpp b/core/app.cpp
index 7565561..9ec6f0b 100644
--- a/core/app.cpp
+++ b/core/app.cpp
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
  */
  
 #include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <sys/un.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
 #include <grp.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <utility>
-#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <fastcgi.h>
 #include "app.h"
 #include "plugin.h"
 #include "misc.h"
@@ -1774,43 +1776,64 @@ void App::WaitForThreads()
 
 
 
-size_t App::FetchPageOnExitCurlCallback(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata)
+
+
+/*
+	we send a one FastCGI record at the end when winix closes (to wake up the main thread)
+	this method is called from the special thread
+
+        typedef struct {
+            unsigned char version;
+            unsigned char type;
+            unsigned char requestIdB1;
+            unsigned char requestIdB0;
+            unsigned char contentLengthB1;
+            unsigned char contentLengthB0;
+            unsigned char paddingLength;
+            unsigned char reserved;
+            unsigned char contentData[contentLength];
+            unsigned char paddingData[paddingLength];
+        } FCGI_Record;
+*/
+void App::SendEmptyFastCGIPacket()
 {
-	/*
-	 * without this function the curl library will print the page's content
-	 * to the standart output
-	 */
-	return size * nmemb;
-}
+std::string msg;
+sockaddr_un to;
+int res;
 
+	int s = socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
 
-void App::FetchPageOnExit()
-{
-	// stupid trick to break FCGX_Accept_r() function
-	// even with FCGX_InitRequest(..., ..., FCGI_FAIL_ACCEPT_ON_INTR) the FCGX_Accept_r
-	// doesn't want to break on a signal
-	// so we request one page from the server for exiting from FCGX_Accept_r
+	if( s < 0 )
+		return;
 
-	Lock();
-	CURL * curl = curl_easy_init();
-	Unlock();
+	memset(&to, 0, sizeof(to));
+	to.sun_len = sizeof(to.sun_len)
+				+ sizeof(to.sun_family)
+				+ socket_to_send_on_exit.size()
+				+ 1; // terminating zero
 
-	if( curl )
+	to.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
+	snprintf(to.sun_path, sizeof(to.sun_path)/sizeof(char), "%s", socket_to_send_on_exit.c_str());
+
+	// actually we can send one byte only
+	msg += FCGI_VERSION_1;
+	msg += FCGI_GET_VALUES;
+	msg += (char)0; // requestid
+	msg += (char)0;
+	msg += (char)0; // contentlength
+	msg += (char)0;
+	msg += (char)0; // padding length
+	msg += (char)0;
+	msg += (char)0; // reserved
+
+	res = connect(s, (sockaddr*)&to, sizeof(to));
+
+	if( res == 0 )
 	{
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, 		url_to_fetch_on_exit.c_str());
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY,	1);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 	1);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, FetchPageOnExitCurlCallback);
-
-		if( curl_easy_perform(curl) != 0 )
-		{
-			Lock();
-			log << log1 << "App: I cannot correctly fetch a page from the special thread" << logend << logsave;
-			Unlock();
-		}
-
-		curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+		send(s, msg.c_str(), msg.size(), MSG_EOF);
 	}
+
+	close(s);
 }
 
 
@@ -1832,12 +1855,10 @@ int sig;
 	app->synchro.was_stop_signal = true; 
 	FCGX_ShutdownPending();
 
-	// here we don't have to use SSL version so we always use config.url_proto
-	PT::WideToUTF8(app->config.url_proto, app->url_to_fetch_on_exit);
-	PT::WideToUTF8(app->config.base_url, app->url_to_fetch_on_exit, false);
+	PT::WideToUTF8(app->config.fcgi_socket, app->socket_to_send_on_exit);
 	app->Unlock();
 
-	app->FetchPageOnExit();
+	app->SendEmptyFastCGIPacket();
 
 	pthread_exit(0);
 	return 0;
diff --git a/core/app.h b/core/app.h
index a7ecfc3..804b78d 100644
--- a/core/app.h
+++ b/core/app.h
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ private:
 	int fcgi_socket;
 	Synchro synchro;
 	pthread_t signal_thread;
-	std::string url_to_fetch_on_exit;
+	std::string socket_to_send_on_exit;
 	std::string send_data_buf;
 	PT::SpaceToJSON json_generic_serializer;
 	TextStream<std::wstring> json_out_stream;
@@ -225,8 +225,7 @@ private:
 	void LogGroups();
 
 	static void * SpecialThreadForSignals(void*);
-	static size_t FetchPageOnExitCurlCallback(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata);
-	void FetchPageOnExit();
+	void SendEmptyFastCGIPacket();
 
 	void CreateStaticTree();