diff --git a/modules/utils/functions.c b/modules/utils/functions.c
index e049056c373..d930b40ee45 100644
--- a/modules/utils/functions.c
+++ b/modules/utils/functions.c
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ int http_query(struct sip_msg* _m, char* _url, char* _dst, char* _post, char* _h
 	pv_value_t val;
 	double download_size;
 	struct curl_slist *chunk = NULL;
+	double size;
+    	char *head;
 
 	memset(&stream, 0, sizeof(http_res_stream_t));
 
@@ -199,14 +201,21 @@ int http_query(struct sip_msg* _m, char* _url, char* _dst, char* _post, char* _h
 		curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD, &download_size);
 		LM_DBG("http_query download size: %u\n", (unsigned int)download_size);
 
-		/* search for line feed */
-		at = memchr(stream.buf, (char)10, download_size);
+		/* search for line feed and remove initial empty lines*/
+		head = stream.buf;
+		size = download_size;
+		at = memchr(head, (char)10, size);
+		while (at == head) {
+                	head += 1 ;
+                	size -= 1 ;
+                	at = memchr(head, (char)10, size);
+        	}
 		if (at == NULL) {
 			/* not found: use whole stream */
-			at = stream.buf + (unsigned int)download_size;
+			at = head + (unsigned int)size;
 		}
-		val.rs.s = stream.buf;
-		val.rs.len = at - stream.buf;
+		val.rs.s = head;
+		val.rs.len = at - head;
 		LM_DBG("http_query result: %.*s\n", val.rs.len, val.rs.s);
 		val.flags = PV_VAL_STR;
 		dst = (pv_spec_t *)_dst;