diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c715d2d8c..4e05207cd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ version = "0.7.0"
 [dependencies]
 url = "1.2"
 
-[dependencies.hyper]
-version = "0.9"
+[dependencies.reqwest]
+version = "0.1.0"
 optional = true
 
 [dependencies.clippy]
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ version = "^0.*"
 
 [features]
 default = ["http"]
-http = ["hyper"]
+http = ["reqwest"]
 unstable = []
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 94cda4662..f1bdc0f30 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 extern crate url;
 #[cfg(feature = "http")]
-extern crate hyper;
+extern crate reqwest;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "http")]
 use std::io::Read;
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
 use url::Url;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "http")]
-use hyper::Client;
+use reqwest::Client;
 #[cfg(feature = "http")]
-use hyper::header::UserAgent;
+use reqwest::header::UserAgent;
 #[cfg(feature = "http")]
-use hyper::status::StatusCode;
+use reqwest::StatusCode;
 #[cfg(feature = "http")]
-use hyper::client::Response;
+use reqwest::Response;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "http")]
 const USER_AGENT: &'static str = "robotparser-rs (https://crates.io/crates/robotparser)";
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ impl<'a> RobotFileParser<'a> {
     #[cfg(feature = "http")]
     /// Reads the robots.txt URL and feeds it to the parser.
     pub fn read(&self) {
-        let client = Client::new();
+        let client = Client::new().expect("client failed to construct");
         let request = client.get(self.url.clone())
             .header(UserAgent(USER_AGENT.to_owned()));
         let mut res = match request.send() {
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ impl<'a> RobotFileParser<'a> {
                 return;
             }
         };
-        match res.status {
+        let status = res.status().clone();
+        match status {
             StatusCode::Unauthorized | StatusCode::Forbidden => {
                 self.disallow_all.set(true);
             }