diff --git a/actix-http/CHANGES.md b/actix-http/CHANGES.md
index d7cd42f6..ab81bbcd 100644
--- a/actix-http/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-http/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [0.2.9] - 2019-08-xx
+
+### Changed
+
+* Dropped the `byteorder`-dependency in favor of `stdlib`-implementation
+
+
 ## [0.2.8] - 2019-08-01
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/actix-http/Cargo.toml b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
index 50b52d12..5cf5cafc 100644
--- a/actix-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ actix-threadpool = "0.1.1"
 base64 = "0.10"
 bitflags = "1.0"
 bytes = "0.4"
-byteorder = "1.2"
 copyless = "0.1.4"
 derive_more = "0.15.0"
 either = "1.5.2"
diff --git a/actix-http/src/ws/frame.rs b/actix-http/src/ws/frame.rs
index 652746b8..46e9f36d 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/ws/frame.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/ws/frame.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian, NetworkEndian};
+use std::convert::TryFrom;
+
 use bytes::{BufMut, Bytes, BytesMut};
 use log::debug;
 use rand;
@@ -48,14 +49,16 @@ impl Parser {
             if chunk_len < 4 {
                 return Ok(None);
             }
-            let len = NetworkEndian::read_uint(&src[idx..], 2) as usize;
+            let len = usize::from(u16::from_be_bytes(
+                TryFrom::try_from(&src[idx..idx + 2]).unwrap(),
+            ));
             idx += 2;
             len
         } else if len == 127 {
             if chunk_len < 10 {
                 return Ok(None);
             }
-            let len = NetworkEndian::read_uint(&src[idx..], 8);
+            let len = u64::from_be_bytes(TryFrom::try_from(&src[idx..idx + 8]).unwrap());
             if len > max_size as u64 {
                 return Err(ProtocolError::Overflow);
             }
@@ -75,10 +78,10 @@ impl Parser {
                 return Ok(None);
             }
 
-            let mask: &[u8] = &src[idx..idx + 4];
-            let mask_u32 = LittleEndian::read_u32(mask);
+            let mask =
+                u32::from_le_bytes(TryFrom::try_from(&src[idx..idx + 4]).unwrap());
             idx += 4;
-            Some(mask_u32)
+            Some(mask)
         } else {
             None
         };
@@ -137,7 +140,7 @@ impl Parser {
     /// Parse the payload of a close frame.
     pub fn parse_close_payload(payload: &[u8]) -> Option<CloseReason> {
         if payload.len() >= 2 {
-            let raw_code = NetworkEndian::read_u16(payload);
+            let raw_code = u16::from_be_bytes(TryFrom::try_from(&payload[..2]).unwrap());
             let code = CloseCode::from(raw_code);
             let description = if payload.len() > 2 {
                 Some(String::from_utf8_lossy(&payload[2..]).into())
@@ -201,10 +204,7 @@ impl Parser {
         let payload = match reason {
             None => Vec::new(),
             Some(reason) => {
-                let mut code_bytes = [0; 2];
-                NetworkEndian::write_u16(&mut code_bytes, reason.code.into());
-
-                let mut payload = Vec::from(&code_bytes[..]);
+                let mut payload = Into::<u16>::into(reason.code).to_be_bytes().to_vec();
                 if let Some(description) = reason.description {
                     payload.extend(description.as_bytes());
                 }
diff --git a/actix-http/src/ws/mask.rs b/actix-http/src/ws/mask.rs
index 15737541..9f730403 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/ws/mask.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/ws/mask.rs
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ fn align_buf(buf: &mut [u8]) -> (ShortSlice, &mut [u64], ShortSlice) {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::apply_mask;
-    use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian};
 
     /// A safe unoptimized mask application.
     fn apply_mask_fallback(buf: &mut [u8], mask: &[u8; 4]) {
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn test_apply_mask() {
         let mask = [0x6d, 0xb6, 0xb2, 0x80];
-        let mask_u32: u32 = LittleEndian::read_u32(&mask);
+        let mask_u32 = u32::from_le_bytes(mask);
 
         let unmasked = vec![
             0xf3, 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x80, 0x81, 0x82, 0xff, 0xfe, 0x00, 0x17,