diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index 481af56..0eb3ec2 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 	],
 	"version": "2.25.1",
 	"requires": {
-		"MediaWiki": ">= 1.31.0"
+		"MediaWiki": ">= 1.32.0"
 	},
 	"license-name": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
 	"url": "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS",
diff --git a/includes/RSSParser.php b/includes/RSSParser.php
index f1ac24c..8711c49 100644
--- a/includes/RSSParser.php
+++ b/includes/RSSParser.php
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ class RSSParser {
 
 		// we set followRedirects intentionally to true to see error messages
 		// in cases where the maximum number of redirects is reached
-		$client = MWHttpRequest::factory( $url,
+		$client = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getHttpRequestFactory()->create( $url,
 			[
 				'timeout'         => $wgRSSFetchTimeout,
 				'followRedirects' => true,
@@ -302,7 +302,8 @@ class RSSParser {
 				'proxy'           => $wgRSSProxy,
 				'noProxy'         => $noProxy,
 				'userAgent'       => $wgRSSUserAgent,
-			]
+			],
+			__METHOD__
 		);
 
 		foreach ( $headers as $header => $value ) {