diff --git a/scgi.cabal b/scgi.cabal
--- a/scgi.cabal
+++ b/scgi.cabal
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 Name:                scgi
-Version:             0.3.2
+Version:             0.3.3
 Stability:           alpha
 Description:
+  THIS LIBRARY IS DEPRECATED. For new applications, please use WAI
+  - see <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai>.
+  .
   This library lets you write SCGI programs. This package reuses the
   cgi package API, making it very easy to port CGI programs to SCGI.
 License:             BSD3
@@ -18,8 +21,8 @@
     location: http://code.haskell.org/scgi/
 
 library
-  build-depends:     base >= 3 && < 5, bytestring, cgi, network,
-      network-bytestring, extensible-exceptions >= 0.1 && < 0.2
+  build-depends:     base >= 3 && < 5, bytestring, cgi, network >= 2.2.3,
+      extensible-exceptions >= 0.1 && < 0.2
   exposed-modules:   Network.SCGI
   ghc-options:       -Wall -fno-warn-name-shadowing -fno-warn-unused-matches
                      -fno-warn-missing-signatures -fno-warn-orphans
diff --git a/src/Network/SCGI.hs b/src/Network/SCGI.hs
--- a/src/Network/SCGI.hs
+++ b/src/Network/SCGI.hs
@@ -71,12 +71,17 @@
 stopAtNothing (Just a:xs) = a:stopAtNothing xs
 stopAtNothing [] = []
 
+-- | This function replaces Data.ByteString.hGetContents, because the latter is
+-- now (on GHC 6.10.4 and GHC 6.12.2, and network-2.2.1.7) acting in such a way
+-- that when a block is received over the TCP connection, it is not immediately
+-- delivered.  This causes the SCGI server to stall.  I don't know when this
+-- behaviour changed.
 lazyContents :: Socket -> IO (ThreadId, L.ByteString)
 lazyContents s = do
     ch <- newChan
-    tid <- forkIO $ forever $ do
+    tid <- forkIO $ (forever $ do
         blk <- NSB.recv s 16384
-        writeChan ch (Just blk)
+        writeChan ch (Just blk))
       `finally`
         writeChan ch Nothing
     blks <- getChanContents ch