diff --git a/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Request.php b/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Request.php
index 57f6f0d..c9dbdf6 100644
--- a/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Request.php
+++ b/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Request.php
@@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ class Request {
 	}
 
 	protected static function getHeaders() {
-		if (!function_exists('apache_request_headers')) {
+		if (function_exists('apache_request_headers')) {
+			return apache_request_headers();
+		}
+		else {
+			$headers = array();
 			foreach ($_SERVER as $name => $value) {
 				if (substr($name, 0, 5) == 'HTTP_') {
 					$headers[str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords(strtolower(str_replace('_', ' ', substr($name, 5)))))] = $value;
@@ -68,9 +72,6 @@ class Request {
 			}
 			return $headers;
 		}
-		else {
-			return apache_request_headers();
-		}
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Response.php b/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Response.php
index b59cbc4..a5e538b 100644
--- a/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Response.php
+++ b/backend/lib/View/HTTP/Response.php
@@ -82,11 +82,25 @@ class Response {
 	 * constructor
 	 */
 	public function __construct() {
-		$this->headers = apache_response_headers();
+		$this->headers = self::getHeaders();
 
 		ob_start(array($this, 'obCallback'));
 	}
 
+	protected static function getHeaders() {
+		if (function_exists('apache_response_headers')) {
+			return apache_response_headers();
+		}
+		else {
+			$headers = array();
+			foreach (headers_list() as $header) {
+				$sp = strpos($header, ':');
+				$headers[substr($header, 0, $sp)] = substr($header, $sp);
+			}
+			return $headers;
+		}
+	}
+
 	public function obCallback($output) {
 		return $output;	// simple passthrough
 	}