diff --git a/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/html.py b/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/html.py
index 94ebbe5d411..0ef60d2a455 100644
--- a/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/html.py
+++ b/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/html.py
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ from typing import (
     cast,
 )
 
-import requests
-from langchain_core._api import beta
+from langchain_core._api import beta, deprecated
 from langchain_core.documents import BaseDocumentTransformer, Document
 from typing_extensions import override
 
@@ -186,8 +185,19 @@ class HTMLHeaderTextSplitter:
         """
         return self.split_text_from_file(StringIO(text))
 
+    @deprecated(
+        since="1.1.2",
+        removal="2.0.0",
+        message=(
+            "Please fetch the HTML content from the URL yourself and pass it "
+            "to split_text."
+        ),
+    )
     def split_text_from_url(
-        self, url: str, timeout: int = 10, **kwargs: Any
+        self,
+        url: str,
+        timeout: int = 10,
+        **kwargs: Any,  # noqa: ARG002
     ) -> list[Document]:
         """Fetch text content from a URL and split it into documents.
 
@@ -205,14 +215,14 @@ class HTMLHeaderTextSplitter:
         Raises:
             requests.RequestException: If the HTTP request fails.
         """
-        from langchain_core._security._ssrf_protection import (  # noqa: PLC0415
-            validate_safe_url,
+        from langchain_core._security._transport import (  # noqa: PLC0415
+            ssrf_safe_client,
         )
 
-        validate_safe_url(url, allow_private=False, allow_http=True)
-        response = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout, **kwargs)
-        response.raise_for_status()
-        return self.split_text(response.text)
+        with ssrf_safe_client() as client:
+            response = client.get(url, timeout=timeout)
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            return self.split_text(response.text)
 
     def split_text_from_file(self, file: str | IO[str]) -> list[Document]:
         """Split HTML content from a file into a list of `Document` objects.
diff --git a/libs/text-splitters/pyproject.toml b/libs/text-splitters/pyproject.toml
index 5608b92a5c6..439c23f7a99 100644
--- a/libs/text-splitters/pyproject.toml
+++ b/libs/text-splitters/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
 version = "1.1.1"
 requires-python = ">=3.10.0,<4.0.0"
 dependencies = [
-    "langchain-core>=1.2.13,<2.0.0",
+    "langchain-core>=1.2.31,<2.0.0",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]