diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index dd85c48d..40a04a52 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ AssetRegistry = "bf4720bc-e11a-5d0c-854e-bdca1663c893"
 Base64 = "2a0f44e3-6c83-55bd-87e4-b1978d98bd5f"
 Distributed = "8ba89e20-285c-5b6f-9357-94700520ee1b"
 FunctionalCollections = "de31a74c-ac4f-5751-b3fd-e18cd04993ca"
+HTTP = "cd3eb016-35fb-5094-929b-558a96fad6f3"
 JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
 Logging = "56ddb016-857b-54e1-b83d-db4d58db5568"
 Observables = "510215fc-4207-5dde-b226-833fc4488ee2"
@@ -16,17 +17,16 @@ Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
 Sockets = "6462fe0b-24de-5631-8697-dd941f90decc"
 UUIDs = "cf7118a7-6976-5b1a-9a39-7adc72f591a4"
-WebSockets = "104b5d7c-a370-577a-8038-80a2059c5097"
 Widgets = "cc8bc4a8-27d6-5769-a93b-9d913e69aa62"
 
 [compat]
 AssetRegistry = "0.1.0"
 FunctionalCollections = "0.5.0"
+HTTP = "1"
 JSExpr = "0.5"
 JSON = "0.18, 0.19, 0.20, 0.21"
 Observables = "0.5"
 Requires = "0.4.4, 0.5, 1.0.0"
-WebSockets = "1.5.0"
 Widgets = "0.6.2"
 julia = "0.7, 1"
 
diff --git a/src/WebIO.jl b/src/WebIO.jl
index 35fd2441..27b950fe 100644
--- a/src/WebIO.jl
+++ b/src/WebIO.jl
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ function __init__()
     @require IJulia="7073ff75-c697-5162-941a-fcdaad2a7d2a" begin
         include_string(@__MODULE__, provider_ijulia.code, provider_ijulia.file)
     end
-    @require WebSockets="104b5d7c-a370-577a-8038-80a2059c5097" begin
+    @require HTTP="cd3eb016-35fb-5094-929b-558a96fad6f3" begin
         include_string(@__MODULE__, provider_generic_http.code, provider_generic_http.file)
     end
 
diff --git a/src/providers/generic_http.jl b/src/providers/generic_http.jl
index def98ed9..03f26421 100644
--- a/src/providers/generic_http.jl
+++ b/src/providers/generic_http.jl
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 using .Sockets
 import .AssetRegistry, .JSON
 using .WebIO
-using .WebSockets: is_upgrade, upgrade, writeguarded
-using .WebSockets: HTTP
+import .HTTP
+import .HTTP.WebSockets
 
 
-struct WSConnection{T} <: WebIO.AbstractConnection
-    sock::T
+struct WSConnection <: WebIO.AbstractConnection
+    stream::HTTP.WebSocket
 end
 
-Sockets.send(p::WSConnection, data) = writeguarded(p.sock, JSON.json(data))
-Base.isopen(p::WSConnection) = isopen(p.sock)
+Sockets.send(p::WSConnection, data) = HTTP.send(p.stream, JSON.json(data))
+Base.isopen(p::WSConnection) = !HTTP.WebSockets.isclosed(p.stream)
 
 if !isfile(GENERIC_HTTP_BUNDLE_PATH)
     error(
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "..", "deps", "mimetypes.jl"))
 """
 Serve an asset from the asset registry.
 """
-function serve_assets(req)
+function serve_assets(req::HTTP.Request)
     if haskey(AssetRegistry.registry, req.target)
         filepath = AssetRegistry.registry[req.target]
         if isfile(filepath)
@@ -42,22 +42,23 @@ function serve_assets(req)
     return HTTP.Response(404)
 end
 
-function websocket_handler(ws)
+function websocket_handler(ws::HTTP.WebSocket)
     conn = WSConnection(ws)
-    while isopen(ws)
-        data, success = WebSockets.readguarded(ws)
-        !success && break
+    for data in ws
         msg = JSON.parse(String(data))
         WebIO.dispatch(conn, msg)
     end
 end
 
-struct WebIOServer{S}
-    server::S
-    serve_task::Task
+struct WebIOServer
+    server::HTTP.Server
 end
 
-kill!(server::WebIOServer) = put!(server.server.in, HTTP.Servers.KILL)
+
+function kill!(s::WebIOServer)
+    close(s.server)
+    wait(s.server)
+end
 
 const singleton_instance = Ref{WebIOServer}()
 
@@ -93,17 +94,40 @@ function WebIOServer(
     )
     # TODO test if actually still running, otherwise restart even if singleton
     if !singleton || !isassigned(singleton_instance)
-        function handler(req)
+        
+        function handler(req::HTTP.Request)
             response = default_response(req)
             response !== missing && return response
             return serve_assets(req)
         end
-        function wshandler(req, sock)
-            req.target == websocket_route && websocket_handler(sock)
+        
+        function wshandler(req::HTTP.Request)
+            if req.target == websocket_route
+                HTTP.WebSockets.upgrade(http) do clientstream
+                    if !HTTP.WebSockets.isclosed(clientstream)
+                        websocket_handler(clientstream)
+                    end
+                end
+            end
+        end
+        
+        server = HTTP.listen!(baseurl, http_port; stream = true, server_kw_args...) do http::HTTP.Stream
+            if HTTP.WebSockets.isupgrade(http.message)
+                wshandler(request)
+            else
+                request::HTTP.Request = http.message
+                request.body = read(http)
+                
+                response = handler(request)
+                response.request = request
+                
+                HTTP.startwrite(http)
+                write(http, response.body)
+                HTTP.closewrite(http)
+            end
         end
-        server = WebSockets.ServerWS(handler, wshandler; server_kw_args...)
-        server_task = @async WebSockets.serve(server, baseurl, http_port, verbose)
-        singleton_instance[] = WebIOServer(server, server_task)
+        
+        singleton_instance[] = WebIOServer(server)
         bundle_url = get(ENV, "WEBIO_BUNDLE_URL") do
             webio_base = WebIO.baseurl[]
             base = if startswith(webio_base, "http") # absolute url
@@ -117,7 +141,7 @@ function WebIOServer(
         while time() - start < wait_time
             # Block as long as our server doesn't actually serve the bundle
             try
-                resp = WebSockets.HTTP.get(bundle_url)
+                resp = HTTP.get(bundle_url)
                 resp.status == 200 && break
                 sleep(0.1)
             catch e
diff --git a/test/http-tests.jl b/test/http-tests.jl
index bd6ea73f..77d03a2b 100644
--- a/test/http-tests.jl
+++ b/test/http-tests.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using WebIO
-using WebSockets
+using HTTP
 using Test
 
 @testset "HTTP provider" begin