diff --git a/ApiVisualEditor.php b/ApiVisualEditor.php
index 738cd5b498..a75dfb559a 100644
--- a/ApiVisualEditor.php
+++ b/ApiVisualEditor.php
@@ -27,12 +27,7 @@ class ApiVisualEditor extends ApiBase {
 		} elseif ($params['paction'] === 'save') {
 			// API Posts HTML to Parsoid Service, receives Wikitext,
 			// API Saves Wikitext to page.
-			$c = curl_init( $parsoid.$page );
-			curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
-			curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'content='.$params['html']);
-			curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-			$wikitext = curl_exec($c);
-			curl_close($c);
+			$wikitext = Http::post( $parsoid.$page, array( 'postData' => 'content='.$params['html'] ) );
 
 			if ( $wikitext ) {