diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6fc6fcaf..5e2ee2a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 ## Changes since v7.1.3
 
+- [#1348](https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/pull/1348) Using the native httputil proxy code for websockets rather than yhat/wsutil to properly handle HTTP-level failures (@thetrime)
 - [#1379](https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/pull/1379) Fix the manual sign in with --htpasswd-user-group switch (@janrotter)
 - [#1337](https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/pull/1337) Changing user field type to text when using htpasswd (@pburgisser)
 - [#1239](https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/pull/1239) Base GitLab provider implementation on OIDCProvider (@NickMeves)
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 15c3e7d9..8a654f8c 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/spf13/viper v1.6.3
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1
 	github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v4 v4.3.11
-	github.com/yhat/wsutil v0.0.0-20170731153501-1d66fa95c997
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20210711020723-a769d52b0f97
 	golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210226172049-e18ecbb05110
 	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.0.0-20200107190931-bf48bf16ab8d
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index fe496af7..a0940db2 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -426,8 +426,6 @@ github.com/vmihailenco/tagparser v0.1.1 h1:quXMXlA39OCbd2wAdTsGDlK9RkOk6Wuw+x37w
 github.com/vmihailenco/tagparser v0.1.1/go.mod h1:OeAg3pn3UbLjkWt+rN9oFYB6u/cQgqMEUPoW2WPyhdI=
 github.com/xiang90/probing v0.0.0-20190116061207-43a291ad63a2/go.mod h1:UETIi67q53MR2AWcXfiuqkDkRtnGDLqkBTpCHuJHxtU=
 github.com/xordataexchange/crypt v0.0.3-0.20170626215501-b2862e3d0a77/go.mod h1:aYKd//L2LvnjZzWKhF00oedf4jCCReLcmhLdhm1A27Q=
-github.com/yhat/wsutil v0.0.0-20170731153501-1d66fa95c997 h1:1+FQ4Ns+UZtUiQ4lP0sTCyKSQ0EXoiwAdHZB0Pd5t9Q=
-github.com/yhat/wsutil v0.0.0-20170731153501-1d66fa95c997/go.mod h1:DIGbh/f5XMAessMV/uaIik81gkDVjUeQ9ApdaU7wRKE=
 github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.1.27/go.mod h1:3hX8gzYuyVAZsxl0MRgGTJEmQBFcNTphYh9decYSb74=
 github.com/yuin/gopher-lua v0.0.0-20190206043414-8bfc7677f583/go.mod h1:gqRgreBUhTSL0GeU64rtZ3Uq3wtjOa/TB2YfrtkCbVQ=
 github.com/yuin/gopher-lua v0.0.0-20191213034115-f46add6fdb5c/go.mod h1:gqRgreBUhTSL0GeU64rtZ3Uq3wtjOa/TB2YfrtkCbVQ=
diff --git a/pkg/upstream/http.go b/pkg/upstream/http.go
index a936b00b..1f9f51b8 100644
--- a/pkg/upstream/http.go
+++ b/pkg/upstream/http.go
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mbland/hmacauth"
 	"github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/v7/pkg/apis/middleware"
 	"github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/v7/pkg/apis/options"
-	"github.com/yhat/wsutil"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -156,14 +155,12 @@ func setProxyDirector(proxy *httputil.ReverseProxy) {
 
 // newWebSocketReverseProxy creates a new reverse proxy for proxying websocket connections.
 func newWebSocketReverseProxy(u *url.URL, skipTLSVerify bool) http.Handler {
-	// This should create the correct scheme for insecure vs secure connections
-	wsScheme := "ws" + strings.TrimPrefix(u.Scheme, "http")
-	wsURL := &url.URL{Scheme: wsScheme, Host: u.Host}
-
-	wsProxy := wsutil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy(wsURL)
+	wsProxy := httputil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy(u)
 	/* #nosec G402 */
 	if skipTLSVerify {
-		wsProxy.TLSClientConfig = &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true}
+		wsProxy.Transport = &http.Transport{
+			TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
+		}
 	}
 	return wsProxy
 }