diff --git a/hxt.cabal b/hxt.cabal
--- a/hxt.cabal
+++ b/hxt.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -- arch-tag: Haskell XML Toolbox main description file
 Name:           hxt
-Version:        9.3.0.1
+Version:        9.3.1.0
 Synopsis:       A collection of tools for processing XML with Haskell.
 Description:    The Haskell XML Toolbox bases on the ideas of HaXml and HXML,
                 but introduces a more general approach for processing XML with Haskell.
@@ -15,9 +15,11 @@
                 hxt-curl, hxt-tagsoup, hxt-relaxng, hxt-xpath, hxt-xslt, hxt-regex-xmlschema contain the extensions.
                 hxt-unicode contains encoding and decoding functions,
                 hxt-charproperties char properties for unicode and XML.
-		.
-		Changes from 9.3.0: upper bound for network set to be < 2.4 (URI signatures changed in 2.4)
                 .
+                Changes from 9.3.0.1: lower bound for network set to be >= 2.4
+                .
+                Changes from 9.3.0: upper bound for network set to be < 2.4 (URI signatures changed in 2.4)
+                .
                 Changes from 9.2.2: XMLSchema validation integrated
                 .
                 Changes from 9.2.1: user defined mime type handlers added
@@ -180,7 +182,7 @@
                 parsec     >= 2.1 && < 4,
                 HUnit      >= 1.2 && < 2,
                 mtl        >= 2   && < 3,
-                network    >= 2.1 && < 2.4,
+                network    >= 2.4 && < 3,
                 deepseq    >= 1.1 && < 2,
                 bytestring >= 0.9 && < 1,
                 binary     >= 0.5 && < 1,
diff --git a/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/XmlState/URIHandling.hs b/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/XmlState/URIHandling.hs
--- a/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/XmlState/URIHandling.hs
+++ b/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/XmlState/URIHandling.hs
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@
     = do
       base' <- parseURIReference' base
       uri'  <- parseURIReference' uri
-      abs'  <- nonStrictRelativeTo uri' base'
+      --  abs' <- nonStrictRelativeTo uri' base'
+      let abs' =  nonStrictRelativeTo uri' base'
       return $ show abs'
 
 -- | arrow variant of 'expandURIString', fails if 'expandURIString' returns Nothing