diff --git a/lib/neography.rb b/lib/neography.rb
index fbe0302..24b136a 100644
--- a/lib/neography.rb
+++ b/lib/neography.rb
@@ -16,14 +16,17 @@ def find_and_require_user_defined_code
 DIRECTIONS = ["incoming", "in", "outgoing", "out", "all", "both"]
 
 require 'cgi'
+require 'crack'
+require 'httparty'
 require 'json'
-require 'excon'
 require 'oj'
 require 'logger'
 require 'ostruct'
 require 'os'
 require 'zip/zipfilesystem'
 
+require 'neography/oj_parser'
+
 require 'neography/config'
 require 'neography/rest'
 require 'neography/neography'
diff --git a/lib/neography/config.rb b/lib/neography/config.rb
index efebf0f..c59c529 100644
--- a/lib/neography/config.rb
+++ b/lib/neography/config.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module Neography
   class Config 
-    class << self; attr_accessor :protocol, :server, :port, :directory, :cypher_path, :gremlin_path, :log_file, :log_enabled, :logger, :max_threads, :authentication, :username, :password end
+    class << self; attr_accessor :protocol, :server, :port, :directory, :cypher_path, :gremlin_path, :log_file, :log_enabled, :logger, :max_threads, :authentication, :username, :password, :parser end
 
     @protocol       = 'http://'
     @server         = 'localhost'
@@ -15,5 +15,6 @@ class << self; attr_accessor :protocol, :server, :port, :directory, :cypher_path
     @authentication = {}
     @username       = nil
     @password       = nil
+    @parser         = {:parser => OjParser}
   end
 end
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diff --git a/lib/neography/oj_parser.rb b/lib/neography/oj_parser.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94ebd82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/neography/oj_parser.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+class OjParser < HTTParty::Parser
+ 
+  protected 
+    def json
+      #Oj::Doc.parse(body)
+      Oj.load(body)
+    end
+end
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diff --git a/lib/neography/rest.rb b/lib/neography/rest.rb
index 60b6708..da7fb4b 100644
--- a/lib/neography/rest.rb
+++ b/lib/neography/rest.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 module Neography
   
   class Rest
+    include HTTParty
     
-    attr_accessor :protocol, :server, :port, :directory, :cypher_path, :gremlin_path, :log_file, :log_enabled, :logger, :max_threads, :authentication, :username, :password
+    attr_accessor :protocol, :server, :port, :directory, :cypher_path, :gremlin_path, :log_file, :log_enabled, :logger, :max_threads, :authentication, :username, :password, :parser
 
       def initialize(options=ENV['NEO4J_URL'] || {})
         init = {:protocol       => Neography::Config.protocol, 
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ def initialize(options=ENV['NEO4J_URL'] || {})
                 :authentication => Neography::Config.authentication,
                 :username       => Neography::Config.username,
                 :password       => Neography::Config.password,
+                :parser         => Neography::Config.parser
                 }
 
         unless options.respond_to?(:each_pair)
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ def initialize(options=ENV['NEO4J_URL'] || {})
         @max_threads    = init[:max_threads]
         @authentication = Hash.new
         @authentication = {"#{init[:authentication]}_auth".to_sym => {:username => init[:username], :password => init[:password]}} unless init[:authentication].empty?
+        @parser         = init[:parser]
       end
 
       def configure(protocol, server, port, directory)
@@ -476,14 +479,15 @@ def get_batch(args)
      end
 
       def evaluate_response(response)
-        code = response.status
+        code = response.code
+        body = response.body
         case code 
           when 200 
             @logger.debug "OK" if @log_enabled
-            Oj.load(response.body)
+            response.parsed_response
           when 201
             @logger.debug "OK, created #{body}" if @log_enabled
-            Oj.load(response.body)
+            response.parsed_response
           when 204  
             @logger.debug "OK, no content returned" if @log_enabled
             nil
@@ -500,19 +504,19 @@ def evaluate_response(response)
       end
 
        def get(path,options={})
-          evaluate_response(Excon.get(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication)))
+          evaluate_response(HTTParty.get(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication).merge!(@parser)))
        end
 
        def post(path,options={})
-          evaluate_response(Excon.post(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication)))
+          evaluate_response(HTTParty.post(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication).merge!(@parser)))
        end
 
        def put(path,options={})
-          evaluate_response(Excon.put(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication)))
+          evaluate_response(HTTParty.put(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication).merge!(@parser)))
        end
 
        def delete(path,options={})
-          evaluate_response(Excon.delete(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication)))
+          evaluate_response(HTTParty.delete(configuration + URI.encode(path), options.merge!(@authentication).merge!(@parser)))
        end
 
       def get_id(id)
diff --git a/neography.gemspec b/neography.gemspec
index c277302..a70427c 100644
--- a/neography.gemspec
+++ b/neography.gemspec
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency "rspec"
   s.add_development_dependency "net-http-spy", "0.2.1"
   s.add_development_dependency "rake", "~> 0.8.7"
-  s.add_dependency "excon", ">= 0.14.0"
+  s.add_dependency "httparty", "0.8.1"
   s.add_dependency "rake", ">= 0.8.7"
   s.add_dependency "json"
   s.add_dependency "os"