diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 49fa91d..e67e929 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 
+0.9.17 / 2016-04-06
+===================
+
+  * remove spdy temporarily [@rauchg]
+
 0.9.16 / 2016-04-01
 ===================
 
diff --git a/lib/agent.js b/lib/agent.js
index 7b12096..2b55266 100644
--- a/lib/agent.js
+++ b/lib/agent.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import http2 from 'spdy';
 import fetch from 'node-fetch';
 
 /**
@@ -20,10 +19,12 @@ export default class Agent {
   }
 
   _initAgent () {
-    this._agent = http2.createAgent({
+    /*
+    this._agent = https.createAgent({
       host: this._host,
       port: 443
     }).once('error', (err) => this._onError(err));
+    */
   }
 
   _onError (err) {
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ export default class Agent {
     }
 
     const { body } = opts;
-    opts.agent = this._agent;
+    // opts.agent = this._agent;
 
     if (body && 'object' === typeof body && 'function' !== typeof body.pipe) {
       opts.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json';
@@ -58,6 +59,6 @@ export default class Agent {
 
   close () {
     if (this._debug) console.log('> [debug] closing agent');
-    return this._agent.close();
+    // return this._agent.close();
   }
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4add1f1..3c18774 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {
   "name": "now",
-  "version": "0.9.16",
-  "description": "Realtime Deployments for Node.JS apps.",
+  "version": "0.9.17",
+  "description": "",
+  "readme": "",
   "main": "./build/lib/index",
   "files": [
     "build"
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@
     "progress": "1.1.8",
     "resumer": "0.0.0",
     "retry": "0.9.0",
-    "spdy": "3.2.3",
     "split-array": "1.0.1",
     "minimist": "1.2.0",
     "ansi-escapes": "1.3.0",