diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7891057d..45149ad7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,5 +35,5 @@ slab = "0.4.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 femme = "1.1.0"
-# surf = { git = "ssh://github.com/yoshuawuyts/surf" }
+surf = "1.0.1"
 tempdir = "0.3.7"
diff --git a/examples/fetch-html.rs b/examples/fetch-html.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index e1482214..00000000
--- a/examples/fetch-html.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-//! Fetches the HTML contents of the Rust website.
-
-#![feature(async_await)]
-
-use std::error::Error;
-
-use async_std::task;
-
-fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
-    task::block_on(async {
-        // let contents = surf::get("https://www.rust-lang.org").recv_string().await?;
-        // println!("{}", contents);
-        Ok(())
-    })
-}
diff --git a/examples/surf-web.rs b/examples/surf-web.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e016b089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/surf-web.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+//! Creates a web request to the Rust website.
+
+#![feature(async_await)]
+
+use async_std::task;
+
+fn main() -> Result<(), surf::Exception> {
+    task::block_on(async {
+        let url = "https://www.rust-lang.org";
+        let mut response = surf::get(url).await?;
+        let body = response.body_string().await?;
+
+        dbg!(url);
+        dbg!(response.status());
+        dbg!(response.version());
+        dbg!(response.headers());
+        dbg!(body.len());
+
+        Ok(())
+    })
+}