diff --git a/std/net/curl.d b/std/net/curl.d
index 2fcbf9431..6aec366c6 100644
--- a/std/net/curl.d
+++ b/std/net/curl.d
@@ -2419,8 +2419,8 @@ struct HTTP
         @system @property void onReceiveHeader(void delegate(in char[] key,
                                                      in char[] value) callback)
         {
-            import std.algorithm.searching : startsWith;
-            import std.regex : regex, match;
+            import std.algorithm.searching : findSplit, startsWith;
+            import std.string : indexOf, chomp;
             import std.uni : toLower;
 
             // Wrap incoming callback in order to separate http status line from
@@ -2447,21 +2447,18 @@ struct HTTP
                         return;
                     }
 
-                    // Normal http header
-                    auto m = match(cast(char[]) header, regex("(.*?): (.*)$"));
-
-                    auto fieldName = m.captures[1].toLower().idup;
+                    auto m = header.findSplit(": ");
+                    auto fieldName = m[0].toLower();
+                    auto fieldContent = m[2].chomp;
                     if (fieldName == "content-type")
                     {
-                        auto mct = match(cast(char[]) m.captures[2],
-                                         regex("charset=([^;]*)", "i"));
-                        if (!mct.empty && mct.captures.length > 1)
-                            charset = mct.captures[1].idup;
+                        auto io = indexOf(fieldContent, "charset=", No.caseSensitive);
+                        if (io != -1)
+                            charset = fieldContent[io + "charset=".length .. $].findSplit(";")[0].idup;
                     }
-
-                    if (!m.empty && callback !is null)
-                        callback(fieldName, m.captures[2]);
-                    headersIn[fieldName] = m.captures[2].idup;
+                    if (!m[1].empty && callback !is null)
+                        callback(fieldName, fieldContent);
+                    headersIn[fieldName] = fieldContent.idup;
                 }
                 catch (UTFException e)
                 {
@@ -2479,20 +2476,27 @@ struct HTTP
     /// Parse status line, as received from / generated by cURL.
     private static bool parseStatusLine(const char[] header, out StatusLine status) @safe
     {
-        import std.conv : to;
-        import std.regex : regex, match;
+        import std.algorithm.searching : findSplit, startsWith;
+        import std.conv : to, ConvException;
 
-        const m = match(header, regex(r"^HTTP/(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))? (\d+)(?: (.*))?$"));
-        if (m.empty)
-            return false; // Invalid status line
-        else
+        if (!header.startsWith("HTTP/"))
+            return false;
+
+        try
         {
-            status.majorVersion = to!ushort(m.captures[1]);
-            status.minorVersion = m.captures[2].length ? to!ushort(m.captures[2]) : 0;
-            status.code = to!ushort(m.captures[3]);
-            status.reason = m.captures[4].idup;
+            const m = header["HTTP/".length .. $].findSplit(" ");
+            const v = m[0].findSplit(".");
+            status.majorVersion = to!ushort(v[0]);
+            status.minorVersion = v[1].length ? to!ushort(v[2]) : 0;
+            const s2 = m[2].findSplit(" ");
+            status.code = to!ushort(s2[0]);
+            status.reason = s2[2].idup;
             return true;
         }
+        catch (ConvException e)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
     }
 
     @safe unittest
@@ -2505,6 +2509,12 @@ struct HTTP
         // The HTTP2 protocol is binary; cURL generates this fake text header.
         assert(parseStatusLine("HTTP/2 200", status)
             && status == StatusLine(2, 0, 200, null));
+
+        assert(!parseStatusLine("HTTP/2", status));
+        assert(!parseStatusLine("HTTP/2 -1", status));
+        assert(!parseStatusLine("HTTP/2  200", status));
+        assert(!parseStatusLine("HTTP/2.X 200", status));
+        assert(!parseStatusLine("HTTP|2 200", status));
     }
 
     /** Time condition enumeration as an alias of $(REF CurlTimeCond, etc,c,curl)