diff --git a/morss/crawler.py b/morss/crawler.py
index 456d5a0..78b8cd6 100644
--- a/morss/crawler.py
+++ b/morss/crawler.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ MIMETYPE = {
 DEFAULT_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0'
 
 
-def custom_handler(accept=None, strict=False, delay=None, encoding=None, basic=False):
+def custom_handler(accept=None, strict=False, delay=None, encoding=None):
     handlers = []
 
     # as per urllib2 source code, these Handelers are added first
@@ -51,9 +51,7 @@ def custom_handler(accept=None, strict=False, delay=None, encoding=None, basic=F
     handlers.append(HTTPEquivHandler())
     handlers.append(HTTPRefreshHandler())
     handlers.append(UAHandler(DEFAULT_UA))
-
-    if not basic:
-        handlers.append(AutoRefererHandler())
+    handlers.append(AutoRefererHandler())
 
     handlers.append(EncodingFixHandler(encoding))
 
diff --git a/morss/morss.py b/morss/morss.py
index de9fe24..4350a2a 100644
--- a/morss/morss.py
+++ b/morss/morss.py
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ def FeedFetch(url, options):
 
     try:
         con = crawler.custom_handler(accept='xml', strict=True, delay=delay,
-            encoding=options.encoding, basic=not options.items) \
+            encoding=options.encoding) \
             .open(url, timeout=TIMEOUT * 2)
         xml = con.read()