diff --git a/http-dispatch.cabal b/http-dispatch.cabal
--- a/http-dispatch.cabal
+++ b/http-dispatch.cabal
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name:                http-dispatch
-version:             0.6.1.0
+version:             0.6.2.0
 synopsis:            High level HTTP client for Haskell
-description:         Please see README.md
+description:         A high level HTTP client with a simple API
 homepage:            http://github.com/owainlewis/http-dispatch#readme
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
                      , Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Internal.Request
                      , Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Types
   build-depends:       base >= 4.5 && < 5
-                     , http-client
-                     , http-client-tls
-                     , http-types
+                     , http-client == 0.5.4
+                     , http-client-tls == 0.3.3
+                     , http-types == 0.9.1
                      , bytestring
                      , base64-bytestring
                      , case-insensitive
diff --git a/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Internal/Request.hs b/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Internal/Request.hs
--- a/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Internal/Request.hs
+++ b/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Internal/Request.hs
@@ -32,13 +32,11 @@
 --
 toRequest :: HTTPRequest -> IO Client.Request
 toRequest (HTTPRequest method url headers body) = do
-    initReq <- parseUrl url
+    initReq <- parseRequest url
     let hdrs = map (\(k, v) -> (CI.mk k, v)) headers
         req = initReq
               { method = C.pack . show $ method
               , requestHeaders = hdrs
-                -- Make sure no exceptions are thrown so that we can handle non 200 codes
-              , checkStatus = \_ _ _ -> Nothing
               }
     case body of
       Just lbs ->