diff --git a/src/Connections.jl b/src/Connections.jl
index 60d6eb9b..dd716340 100644
--- a/src/Connections.jl
+++ b/src/Connections.jl
@@ -234,12 +234,12 @@ Read until `find_delimiter(bytes)` returns non-zero.
 Return view of bytes up to the delimiter.
 """
 function IOExtras.readuntil(c::Connection, f::F #=Vector{UInt8} -> Int=#,
-                                        sizehint=4096)::ByteView where {F <: Function}
+                            sizehint=4096) where {F <: Function}
     buf = c.buffer
     if bytesavailable(buf) == 0
         read_to_buffer(c, sizehint)
     end
-    while (bytes = IOExtras.readuntil(buf, f)) == nobytes
+    while isempty(begin bytes = IOExtras.readuntil(buf, f) end)
         read_to_buffer(c, sizehint)
     end
     return bytes
diff --git a/src/IOExtras.jl b/src/IOExtras.jl
index f45127d2..545ef70f 100644
--- a/src/IOExtras.jl
+++ b/src/IOExtras.jl
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ using Sockets
 using MbedTLS: SSLContext, MbedException
 using OpenSSL: SSLStream
 
-export bytes, isbytes, nbytes, ByteView, nobytes,
+export bytes, isbytes, nbytes, nobytes,
        startwrite, closewrite, startread, closeread, readuntil,
        tcpsocket, localport, safe_getpeername
 
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ function safe_getpeername(io)
 end
 
 
-const ByteView = typeof(view(UInt8[], 1:0))
 const nobytes = view(UInt8[], 1:0)
 
 readuntil(args...) = Base.readuntil(args...)
@@ -114,8 +113,8 @@ Read from an `IO` stream until `find_delimiter(bytes)` returns non-zero.
 Return view of bytes up to the delimiter.
 """
 function readuntil(buf::IOBuffer,
-                    find_delimiter::F #= Vector{UInt8} -> Int =#
-                   )::ByteView where {F <: Function}
+                   find_delimiter::F #= Vector{UInt8} -> Int =#
+                   ) where {F <: Function}
     l = find_delimiter(view(buf.data, buf.ptr:buf.size))
     if l == 0
         return nobytes
diff --git a/src/Streams.jl b/src/Streams.jl
index 220d11c4..d58e14c8 100644
--- a/src/Streams.jl
+++ b/src/Streams.jl
@@ -320,14 +320,15 @@ function readall!(http::Stream, buf::Base.GenericIOBuffer=PipeBuffer())
     return n
 end
 
-function IOExtras.readuntil(http::Stream, f::Function)::ByteView
+function IOExtras.readuntil(http::Stream, f::Function)
     UInt(ntoread(http)) == 0 && return Connections.nobytes
     try
         bytes = IOExtras.readuntil(http.stream, f)
         update_ntoread(http, length(bytes))
         return bytes
-    catch
+    catch ex
         # if we error, it means we didn't find what we were looking for
+        # TODO: this seems very sketchy
         return UInt8[]
     end
 end