diff --git a/.DS_Store b/.DS_Store
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bef970b
Binary files /dev/null and b/.DS_Store differ
diff --git a/lib/google_directions.rb b/lib/google_directions.rb
index 4e032ad..1d0a79a 100644
--- a/lib/google_directions.rb
+++ b/lib/google_directions.rb
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ def initialize(origin, destination, opts=@@default_options)
     @options = opts.merge({:origin => @origin, :destination => @destination})
 
     @url = @@base_url + '?' + @options.to_query
-    @xml = open(@url).read
-    @doc = Nokogiri::XML(@xml)
+    @response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI(@url))
+    @doc = Nokogiri::XML(@response.body)
     @status = @doc.css('status').text
   end