diff --git a/code/nel/include/nel/gui/group_html.h b/code/nel/include/nel/gui/group_html.h
index 56144b61e..35ba3e40e 100644
--- a/code/nel/include/nel/gui/group_html.h
+++ b/code/nel/include/nel/gui/group_html.h
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ namespace NLGUI
 			sint32 MaxHeight;
 		};
 
+		// ImageDownload system
+		enum TDataType {ImgType= 0, BnpType};
+		enum TImageType {NormalImage=0, OverImage};
+		
 		// Constructor
 		CGroupHTML(const TCtorParam &param);
 		~CGroupHTML();
@@ -151,6 +155,10 @@ namespace NLGUI
 
 		// End of the paragraph
 		void endParagraph();
+		
+		// add image download (used by view_bitmap.cpp to load web images)
+		void addImageDownload(const std::string &url, CViewBase *img, const CStyleParams &style = CStyleParams(), const TImageType type = NormalImage);
+		std::string localImageName(const std::string &url);
 
 		// Timeout
 		void	setTimeout(float tm) {_TimeoutValue= std::max(0.f, tm);}
@@ -722,6 +730,8 @@ namespace NLGUI
 				return 0;
 			return _Indent.back();
 		}
+		
+
 
 		// Current node is a title
 		bool			_Title;
@@ -811,10 +821,6 @@ namespace NLGUI
 	private:
 		// decode all HTML entities
 		static ucstring decodeHTMLEntities(const ucstring &str);
-
-		// ImageDownload system
-		enum TDataType {ImgType= 0, BnpType};
-		enum TImageType {NormalImage=0, OverImage};
 		
 		struct CDataImageDownload
 		{
@@ -857,8 +863,6 @@ namespace NLGUI
 
 		void initImageDownload();
 		void checkImageDownload();
-		void addImageDownload(const std::string &url, CViewBase *img, const CStyleParams &style = CStyleParams(), const TImageType type = NormalImage);
-		std::string localImageName(const std::string &url);
 		std::string getAbsoluteUrl(const std::string &url);
 
 		bool isTrustedDomain(const std::string &domain);
diff --git a/code/nel/src/gui/view_bitmap.cpp b/code/nel/src/gui/view_bitmap.cpp
index b479cb889..79b8c32a4 100644
--- a/code/nel/src/gui/view_bitmap.cpp
+++ b/code/nel/src/gui/view_bitmap.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "nel/gui/widget_manager.h"
 #include "nel/gui/interface_group.h"
 #include "nel/gui/group_container_base.h"
+#include "nel/gui/group_html.h"
 
 using namespace std;
 using namespace NLMISC;
@@ -452,7 +453,19 @@ namespace NLGUI
 	// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 	void CViewBitmap::setTexture(const std::string & TxName)
 	{
-		_TextureId.setTexture (TxName.c_str (), _TxtOffsetX, _TxtOffsetY, _TxtWidth, _TxtHeight, false);
+		if (TxName.find("://") != string::npos || TxName.find("//") == 0)
+		{
+			CGroupHTML *groupHtml = dynamic_cast<CGroupHTML*>(CWidgetManager::getInstance()->getElementFromId("ui:interface:webig:content:html"));
+			if (groupHtml) {
+				string localname = groupHtml->localImageName(TxName);
+				if (!CFile::fileExists(localname))
+					localname = "web_del.tga";
+				_TextureId.setTexture (localname.c_str(), _TxtOffsetX, _TxtOffsetY, _TxtWidth, _TxtHeight, false);
+				groupHtml->addImageDownload(TxName, dynamic_cast<CViewBase*>(this));
+			}
+		}
+		else
+			_TextureId.setTexture (TxName.c_str (), _TxtOffsetX, _TxtOffsetY, _TxtWidth, _TxtHeight, false);
 	}
 
 	// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------