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diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Test.pm b/lib/Catalyst/Test.pm
index 492fb31..53c16a2 100644
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Test.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Test.pm
@@ -295,21 +295,28 @@ sub _local_request {
 
             # HTML head parsing based on LWP::UserAgent
             #
+            # This is because if you make a remote request with LWP, then the
+            # <BASE HREF="..."> from the returned HTML document will be used
+            # to fill in $res->base, as documented in HTTP::Response. We need
+            # to support this in local test requests so that they work 'the same'.
+            #
             # This is not just horrible and possibly broken, but also really
             # doesn't belong here. Whoever wants this should be working on
             # getting it into Plack::Test, or make a middleware out of it, or
             # whatever. Seriously - horrible.
 
-            require HTML::HeadParser;
+            if (!$resp->content_type || $resp->content_is_html) {
+                require HTML::HeadParser;
 
-            my $parser = HTML::HeadParser->new();
-            $parser->xml_mode(1) if $resp->content_is_xhtml;
-            $parser->utf8_mode(1) if $] >= 5.008 && $HTML::Parser::VERSION >= 3.40;
+                my $parser = HTML::HeadParser->new();
+                $parser->xml_mode(1) if $resp->content_is_xhtml;
+                $parser->utf8_mode(1) if $] >= 5.008 && $HTML::Parser::VERSION >= 3.40;
 
-            $parser->parse( $resp->content );
-            my $h = $parser->header;
-            for my $f ( $h->header_field_names ) {
-                $resp->init_header( $f, [ $h->header($f) ] );
+                $parser->parse( $resp->content );
+                my $h = $parser->header;
+                for my $f ( $h->header_field_names ) {
+                    $resp->init_header( $f, [ $h->header($f) ] );
+                }
             }
             # Another horrible hack to make the response headers have a
             # 'status' field. This is for back-compat, but you should