diff --git a/Yesod/Auth/Http/Basic.hs b/Yesod/Auth/Http/Basic.hs
--- a/Yesod/Auth/Http/Basic.hs
+++ b/Yesod/Auth/Http/Basic.hs
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 -- | A Yesod middleware for <<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-11.1 HTTP Basic Authentication>>
 --
--- This middleware performs a single authentication lookup
--- per request and uses the Yesod request-local caching
--- mechanisms to store valid auth credentials found in the
--- Authorization header.
 --
+-- Performs a single authentication lookup per request and uses the
+-- <<https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/blob/7f775e1ddebaeb4b8509b512b6d4b539d96258bd/yesod-core/Yesod/Core/TypeCache.hs#L21
+-- Yesod request-local caching>> mechanisms to store valid auth
+-- credentials found in the Authorization header.
 --
+--
 -- The recommended way to use this module is to override the
 -- @maybeAuthId@ to @defaultMaybeBasicAuthId@ and supply a
 -- lookup function.
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
 -- instance YesodAuth App where
 --     type AuthId App = Text
 --     getAuthId = return . Just . credsIdent
---     maybeAuthId = defaultMaybeBasicAuthId checkCreds
+--     maybeAuthId = defaultMaybeBasicAuthId checkCreds defaultAuthSettings
 --       where
 --         checkCreds = \k s -> return $ (k == "user")
 --                                    && (s == "secret")
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@
          -- * Drop in replace for maybeAuthId.
          defaultMaybeBasicAuthId
 
-       -- The AuthSettings currently do nothing
+       -- * The AuthSettings currently do nothing
        -- useful but are supplied to the defaultMaybeAUthId
        -- anyways
        , AuthSettings
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@
 import qualified Data.Text.Encoding     as T
 import           Data.Typeable
 import           Data.Word8             (isSpace, toLower, _colon)
+import           Prelude
 import           Network.Wai
 import           Yesod                  hiding (Header)
 
@@ -153,7 +155,7 @@
     authorization = BS.break isSpace
                     <$> lookup "Authorization" (requestHeaders req)
     authorizeCredentials encoded =
-      let (username, password') = BS.breakByte _colon $ decodeLenient encoded
+      let (username, password') = BS.break (== _colon) $ decodeLenient encoded
       in case BS.uncons password' of
           Nothing -> return Nothing
           Just (_,password) -> do
diff --git a/yesod-auth-basic.cabal b/yesod-auth-basic.cabal
--- a/yesod-auth-basic.cabal
+++ b/yesod-auth-basic.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 name:                yesod-auth-basic
-version:             0.1.0.1
+version:             0.1.0.2
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Christopher Reichert
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   exposed-modules:     Yesod.Auth.Http.Basic
   ghc-options:         -Wall
   default-language:    Haskell2010
-  build-depends:       base              == 4.*
+  build-depends:       base               == 4.*
                      , base64-bytestring
                      , bytestring
                      , exceptions
@@ -36,13 +36,17 @@
                      , wai
                      , word8
 
+  if impl(ghc < 7.6)
+    build-depends:
+      iproute < 1.4
 
+
 test-suite spec
   type:                exitcode-stdio-1.0
   main-is:             Spec.hs
   hs-source-dirs:      test/
   other-modules:       YesodAuthHttpBasicSpec
-  ghc-options:         -Wall -Werror -threaded
+  ghc-options:         -Wall -threaded
   default-language:    Haskell2010
   build-depends:       base                 == 4.*
                      , yesod
@@ -54,8 +58,9 @@
 
 test-suite hlint
     main-is:          test/HLint.hs
-    ghc-options:      -Wall -Werror -threaded
+    ghc-options:      -Wall -threaded
     type:             exitcode-stdio-1.0
     default-language: Haskell2010
     build-depends:    base
-                    , hlint == 1.8.*
+                    , hlint 
+