diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index ac010c19de..6bd82bb082 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -1374,6 +1374,9 @@ function lrdd($uri) {
 					$link = $matches[1];
 					break;
 				}
+				// don't try and run feeds through the html5 parser
+				if(stristr($line,'content-type:') && ((stristr($line,'application/atom+xml')) || (stristr($line,'application/rss+xml'))))
+					return array();
 			}
 		}
 		if(! isset($link)) {
diff --git a/include/Scrape.php b/include/Scrape.php
index e4f7a0878c..bb42c3bdd3 100644
--- a/include/Scrape.php
+++ b/include/Scrape.php
@@ -5,12 +5,25 @@ require_once('library/HTML5/Parser.php');
 if(! function_exists('scrape_dfrn')) {
 function scrape_dfrn($url) {
 
+	$a = get_app();
+
 	$ret = array();
 	$s = fetch_url($url);
 
 	if(! $s) 
 		return $ret;
 
+	$headers = $a->get_curl_headers();
+	$lines = explode("\n",$headers);
+	if(count($lines)) {
+		foreach($lines as $line) {				
+			// don't try and run feeds through the html5 parser
+			if(stristr($line,'content-type:') && ((stristr($line,'application/atom+xml')) || (stristr($line,'application/rss+xml'))))
+				return ret;
+		}
+	}
+
+
 	$dom = HTML5_Parser::parse($s);
 
 	if(! $dom)
@@ -77,12 +90,26 @@ function validate_dfrn($a) {
 if(! function_exists('scrape_meta')) {
 function scrape_meta($url) {
 
+	$a = get_app();
+
 	$ret = array();
 	$s = fetch_url($url);
 
 	if(! $s) 
 		return $ret;
 
+	$headers = $a->get_curl_headers();
+	$lines = explode("\n",$headers);
+	if(count($lines)) {
+		foreach($lines as $line) {				
+			// don't try and run feeds through the html5 parser
+			if(stristr($line,'content-type:') && ((stristr($line,'application/atom+xml')) || (stristr($line,'application/rss+xml'))))
+				return ret;
+		}
+	}
+
+
+
 	$dom = HTML5_Parser::parse($s);
 
 	if(! $dom)
@@ -105,12 +132,24 @@ function scrape_meta($url) {
 if(! function_exists('scrape_vcard')) {
 function scrape_vcard($url) {
 
+	$a = get_app();
+
 	$ret = array();
 	$s = fetch_url($url);
 
 	if(! $s) 
 		return $ret;
 
+	$headers = $a->get_curl_headers();
+	$lines = explode("\n",$headers);
+	if(count($lines)) {
+		foreach($lines as $line) {				
+			// don't try and run feeds through the html5 parser
+			if(stristr($line,'content-type:') && ((stristr($line,'application/atom+xml')) || (stristr($line,'application/rss+xml'))))
+				return ret;
+		}
+	}
+
 	$dom = HTML5_Parser::parse($s);
 
 	if(! $dom)
@@ -142,12 +181,31 @@ function scrape_vcard($url) {
 if(! function_exists('scrape_feed')) {
 function scrape_feed($url) {
 
+	$a = get_app();
+
 	$ret = array();
 	$s = fetch_url($url);
 
 	if(! $s) 
 		return $ret;
 
+	$headers = $a->get_curl_headers();
+	$lines = explode("\n",$headers);
+	if(count($lines)) {
+		foreach($lines as $line) {				
+			if(stristr($line,'content-type:')) {
+				if(stristr($line,'application/atom+xml')) {
+					$ret['feed_atom'] = $url;
+					return $ret;
+				}
+ 				if(stristr($line,'application/rss+xml')) {
+					$ret['feed_rss'] = $url;
+					return ret;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	$dom = HTML5_Parser::parse($s);
 
 	if(! $dom)
diff --git a/mod/follow.php b/mod/follow.php
index 62ba2585c2..c5f6d9e3fc 100644
--- a/mod/follow.php
+++ b/mod/follow.php
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ function follow_post(&$a) {
 		// create contact record 
 		$r = q("INSERT INTO `contact` ( `uid`, `created`, `url`, `notify`, `poll`, `name`, `nick`, `photo`, `network`, `rel`, `priority`,
 			`blocked`, `readonly`, `pending` )
-			VALUES ( %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, 0, 0, 0 ) ",
+			VALUES ( %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, %d, 0, 0, 0 ) ",
 			intval(local_user()),
 			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 			dbesc($profile),