diff --git a/addons/im_livechat/static/src/js/im_livechat.js b/addons/im_livechat/static/src/js/im_livechat.js
index 446717b1b7f..df9cd99b7d7 100644
--- a/addons/im_livechat/static/src/js/im_livechat.js
+++ b/addons/im_livechat/static/src/js/im_livechat.js
@@ -82,16 +82,15 @@ var LivechatButton = Widget.extend({
     },
 
     load_qweb_template: function(){
-        return $.when(
-            $.get('/mail/static/src/xml/chat_window.xml'),
-            $.get('/mail/static/src/xml/thread.xml'),
-            $.get('/im_livechat/static/src/xml/im_livechat.xml')
-        ).then(function (chat_window, mail_thread, livechat) {
-            // results are triplets of [dom: XMLDocument, status: String, xhr: jqXHR]
-            QWeb.add_template(chat_window[0]);
-            QWeb.add_template(mail_thread[0]);
-            QWeb.add_template(livechat[0]);
+        var xml_files = ['/mail/static/src/xml/chat_window.xml',
+                         '/mail/static/src/xml/thread.xml',
+                         '/im_livechat/static/src/xml/im_livechat.xml'];
+        var defs = _.map(xml_files, function (tmpl) {
+            return session.rpc('/web/proxy/load', {path: tmpl}).then(function (xml) {
+                QWeb.add_template(xml);
+            });
         });
+        return $.when.apply($, defs);
     },
 
     open_chat: _.debounce(function () {
diff --git a/addons/web/controllers/main.py b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
index 3e6b19adf11..496f234f7e0 100644
--- a/addons/web/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
@@ -586,6 +586,22 @@ class WebClient(http.Controller):
 
 class Proxy(http.Controller):
 
+    @http.route('/web/proxy/load', type='json', auth="none")
+    def load(self, path):
+        """ Proxies an HTTP request through a JSON request.
+
+        It is strongly recommended to not request binary files through this,
+        as the result will be a binary data blob as well.
+
+        :param path: actual request path
+        :return: file content
+        """
+        from werkzeug.test import Client
+        from werkzeug.wrappers import BaseResponse
+
+        base_url = request.httprequest.base_url
+        return Client(request.httprequest.app, BaseResponse).get(path, base_url=base_url).data
+
     @http.route('/web/proxy/post/<path:path>', type='http', auth='user', methods=['GET'])
     def post(self, path):
         """Effectively execute a POST request that was hooked through user login"""