diff --git a/TagSoup/Sample.hs b/TagSoup/Sample.hs
--- a/TagSoup/Sample.hs
+++ b/TagSoup/Sample.hs
@@ -2,15 +2,29 @@
 module TagSoup.Sample where
 
 import Text.HTML.TagSoup
-import Network.HTTP
 
+import Control.Exception
+import Control.Monad
 import Data.Char
 import Data.List
+import System.Cmd
+import System.Directory
+import System.Exit
+import System.IO
 
 
 openItem :: String -> IO String
-openItem x | "http://" `isPrefixOf` x = getResponseBody =<< simpleHTTP (getRequest x)
-           | otherwise = readFile x
+openItem url | not $ "http://" `isPrefixOf` url = readFile url
+openItem url = bracket
+    (openTempFile "." "tagsoup.tmp")
+    (\(file,hndl) -> removeFile file)
+    $ \(file,hndl) -> do
+        hClose hndl
+        putStrLn $ "Downloading: " ++ url
+        res <- system $ "wget " ++ url ++ " -O " ++ file
+        when (res /= ExitSuccess) $ error $ "Failed to download using wget: " ++ url
+        src <- readFile file
+        length src `seq` return src
 
 
 grab :: String -> IO ()
diff --git a/Text/HTML/TagSoup.hs b/Text/HTML/TagSoup.hs
--- a/Text/HTML/TagSoup.hs
+++ b/Text/HTML/TagSoup.hs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     sections, partitions,
     
     -- * Combinators
-    TagRep, (~==),(~/=)
+    TagRep(..), (~==),(~/=)
     ) where
 
 import Text.HTML.TagSoup.Type
diff --git a/tagsoup.cabal b/tagsoup.cabal
--- a/tagsoup.cabal
+++ b/tagsoup.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:  >= 1.6
 name:           tagsoup
-version:        0.11.1
+version:        0.12
 copyright:      Neil Mitchell 2006-2010
 author:         Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell@gmail.com>
 maintainer:     Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell@gmail.com>
@@ -25,12 +25,11 @@
     description: Build the test program
 
 flag download
-    default: True
+    default: False
     description: Build with Download module
 
 library
-    ghc-options: -O2
-    build-depends: base == 4.*, mtl, containers, bytestring
+    build-depends: base == 4.*, containers, bytestring
 
     if flag(download)
         build-depends: network
@@ -53,10 +52,9 @@
         Text.HTML.TagSoup.Type
 
 executable tagsoup
-    ghc-options: -O2
     if flag(testprog)
         buildable: True
-        build-depends: QuickCheck == 2.1.*, time, deepseq == 1.1.0.0, HTTP
+        build-depends: QuickCheck == 2.4.*, time, deepseq == 1.1.*, directory, process
     else
         buildable: False