diff --git a/bin/gistr b/bin/gistr
index 5a0dcd9..c46cadf 100755
--- a/bin/gistr
+++ b/bin/gistr
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ op = OptionParser.new do |o|
   o.on "-b", "--blog=BLOG", "Tumblr blog" do |blog|
     opts.blog = blog
   end
+
+  o.on "-r", "--private=1", "Private post?" do |private|
+    opts.private = private
+  end
 end
 
 gist_id = *op.parse!(ARGV)
@@ -32,7 +36,7 @@ unless gist_id
   exit(1)
 end
 
-g = Gistr.new(gist_id)
+g = Gistr.new(gist_id, { :private => opts.private })
 
 g.post opts.email, opts.password, opts.title, opts.blog
 
diff --git a/lib/gistr.rb b/lib/gistr.rb
index 54162d7..66a3bc8 100644
--- a/lib/gistr.rb
+++ b/lib/gistr.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 require 'open-uri'
-require 'hpricot'
 
 class Gistr
-  def initialize(gist_id)
+  def initialize(gist_id, options = {})
     @gist_id = gist_id
+    @post_private = options[:private] || 1
   end
 
   def post(email, password, title, blog)
@@ -14,29 +14,18 @@ def gist_code
     return @gist_code if @gist_code
 
     # Use the secret .pibb format
-    code = open("http://gist.github.com/#{@gist_id}.pibb").read
+    code = open("https://gist.github.com/#{@gist_id}.pibb").read
 
-    # Remove the <pre> tag
-    #
-    # Tumblr wrap lines at of HTML at times and having the additional
-    # whitespace in a <pre> is very undesirable.
-    h = Hpricot(code)
-
-    h.search('pre').each do |pre|
-      pre.swap(pre.inner_html) if pre.inner_html.length > 0
-    end
-
-    @gist_code = h.to_html
+    @gist_code = code
   end
 
   private
   def post_to_tumblr(email, password, title, blog, body)
-    post_private = 1
     Net::HTTP.start("www.tumblr.com") do |http|
       req = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/api/write")
       req.set_form_data :email => email, :password => password,
         :title => title, :body => body, :format => 'html',
-        :private => post_private, :group => blog
+        :private => @post_private, :group => blog
 
       http.request(req)
     end