diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Revision history for http-query
 
+## 0.1.2 (2022-02-17)
+- webAPIQuery: revert to not using setRequestCheckStatus
+
 ## 0.1.1 (2021-11-29)
 - add apiQueryURI: returns the URI of a query
 - fix build with aeson-2.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 [![GitHub CI](https://github.com/juhp/http-query/workflows/build/badge.svg)](https://github.com/juhp/http-query/actions)
 [![Hackage](http://img.shields.io/hackage/v/http-query.png)](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-query)
 
-Very thin layer over http-conduit for simpler web json API queries.
+Very thin layer over http-conduit for simpler web API JSON queries.
 
-See the Network.HTTP.Query documentation for more details.
+See the [Network.HTTP.Query](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-query/docs/Network-HTTP-Query.html) documentation for more details.
 
 ## Examples
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cached-json-file
 - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/fbrnch
 - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stack-all
-- https://github.com/juhp/bodhi-hs
-- https://github.com/juhp/copr-hs
-- https://github.com/juhp/pagure-hs
-- https://github.com/juhp/pdc-hs
+- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bodhi
+- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/copr-api
+- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pagure
+- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pdc
diff --git a/http-query.cabal b/http-query.cabal
--- a/http-query.cabal
+++ b/http-query.cabal
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 name:                http-query
-version:             0.1.1
+version:             0.1.2
 synopsis:            Simple http queries
 description:
-        Simple web API queries to JSON.
+        Simple web API queries returning JSON.
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com>
 maintainer:          Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com>
-copyright:           2020-2021  Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com>
+copyright:           2020-2022  Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com>
 category:            Web
 homepage:            https://github.com/juhp/http-query
 bug-reports:         https://github.com/juhp/http-query/issues
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
                      , text
   if impl(ghc < 8)
     build-depends:     transformers
+  if impl(ghc<8.3)
+    build-depends:
+                       http-client < 0.7.11 || > 0.7.11,
+                       http-client-tls < 0.3.6 || > 0.3.6
   exposed-modules:     Network.HTTP.Query
   hs-source-dirs:      src
 
diff --git a/src/Network/HTTP/Query.hs b/src/Network/HTTP/Query.hs
--- a/src/Network/HTTP/Query.hs
+++ b/src/Network/HTTP/Query.hs
@@ -95,8 +95,7 @@
   case parseURI url of
     Nothing -> error $ "Cannot parse uri: " ++ url
     Just uri ->
-      let req = setRequestCheckStatus $
-                setRequestQueryString params $
+      let req = setRequestQueryString params $
                 requestFromURI_ uri
       in getResponseBody <$> httpJSON req