diff --git a/Network/HTTP/Client/Body.hs b/Network/HTTP/Client/Body.hs
--- a/Network/HTTP/Client/Body.hs
+++ b/Network/HTTP/Client/Body.hs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import qualified Data.ByteString as S
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
 import Control.Monad (unless, when)
-import qualified Codec.Zlib as Z
+import qualified Data.Streaming.Zlib as Z
 
 brReadSome :: BodyReader -> Int -> IO L.ByteString
 brReadSome BodyReader {..} =
@@ -66,18 +66,19 @@
     inf <- Z.initInflate $ Z.WindowBits 31
     istate <- newIORef Nothing
     let goPopper popper = do
-            mbs <- popper
-            case mbs of
-                Just bs -> do
+            res <- popper
+            case res of
+                Z.PRNext bs -> do
                     writeIORef istate $ Just popper
                     return bs
-                Nothing -> do
+                Z.PRDone -> do
                     bs <- Z.flushInflate inf
                     if S.null bs
                         then start
                         else do
                             writeIORef istate Nothing
                             return bs
+                Z.PRError e -> throwIO $ HttpZlibException e
         start = do
             bs <- brRead br
             if S.null bs
diff --git a/Network/HTTP/Client/Types.hs b/Network/HTTP/Client/Types.hs
--- a/Network/HTTP/Client/Types.hs
+++ b/Network/HTTP/Client/Types.hs
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 import qualified Data.IORef as I
 import qualified Data.Map as Map
 import Data.Text (Text)
+import Data.Streaming.Zlib (ZlibException)
 
 -- | An abstraction for representing an incoming response body coming from the
 -- server. Data provided by this abstraction has already been gunzipped and
@@ -104,6 +105,10 @@
                    -- Since 1.9.4
                    | IncompleteHeaders
                    | InvalidDestinationHost S.ByteString
+                   | HttpZlibException ZlibException
+                   -- ^
+                   --
+                   -- Since 0.3
     deriving (Show, T.Typeable)
 instance Exception HttpException
 
diff --git a/http-client.cabal b/http-client.cabal
--- a/http-client.cabal
+++ b/http-client.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                http-client
-version:             0.3.0
+version:             0.3.0.1
 synopsis:            An HTTP client engine, intended as a base layer for more user-friendly packages.
 description:         This codebase has been refactored from http-conduit.
 homepage:            https://github.com/snoyberg/http-client
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
                      , data-default-class
                      , time              >= 1.2
                      , network           >= 2.3
-                     , zlib-bindings     >= 0.1    && <0.2
+                     , streaming-commons >= 0.1.0.2 && < 0.2
                      , containers
                      , transformers
                      , deepseq           >= 1.3    && <1.4
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
                      , transformers
                      , deepseq
                      , case-insensitive
-                     , failure
                      , base64-bytestring
                      , zlib
                      , async