diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd9b1b6..2cda643 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.3.0
+
+### maj
+
+- `maj::get` unfortunately had to become async in order for fetching `gus.guru` to work
+
+### majc
+
+- keep track of loaded pages as history
+- `l` to view/navigate to links
+- use [smol](https://github.com/stjepang/smol) for doing the async operations synchronously
+
 ## 0.2.0
 
 ### maj
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1444137..98025f6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "maj"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 authors = ["Christine Dodrill <me@christine.website>"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "0BSD"
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ rustls = { version = "0.18", optional = true, features = ["dangerous_configurati
 webpki = { version = "0.21.0", optional = true }
 webpki-roots = { version = "0.20", optional = true }
 tokio-rustls = { version = "0.14", features = ["dangerous_configuration"], optional = true }
+tokio-io-timeout = "0.4"
 log = "0.4"
 url = "2"
 thiserror = "1"
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ optional = true
 [features]
 default = ["client", "server"]
 
-client = ["rustls", "webpki", "webpki-roots"]
+client = ["rustls", "webpki", "webpki-roots", "tokio", "tokio-rustls"]
 server = ["rustls", "webpki", "webpki-roots", "tokio", "async-trait", "tokio-rustls"]
 
 [workspace]
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 0ea3a94..0d91a54 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.2.0
+0.3.0
diff --git a/majc/Cargo.toml b/majc/Cargo.toml
index 5d19534..ae85c61 100644
--- a/majc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/majc/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,5 +10,10 @@ edition = "2018"
 cursive = "0.15"
 log = "0.4"
 url = "2"
+webpki = "0.21.0"
+tokio-rustls = { version = "0.14", features = ["dangerous_configuration"] }
+rustls = { version = "0.18", features = ["dangerous_configuration"] }
+smol = { version = "0.3", features = ["tokio02"] }
 
 maj = { path = ".." }
+
diff --git a/majc/src/gemini.rs b/majc/src/gemini.rs
index 2c527dd..7ccb3ac 100644
--- a/majc/src/gemini.rs
+++ b/majc/src/gemini.rs
@@ -7,13 +7,26 @@ use cursive::{
 };
 use maj::{self, Response};
 use std::str;
+use tokio_rustls::rustls::ClientConfig;
 
 /// The state of the browser.
-#[derive(Default, Clone, Debug)]
+#[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct State {
     url: Option<url::Url>,
     history: Vec<url::Url>,
     links: Vec<(url::Url, Option<String>)>,
+    cfg: ClientConfig,
+}
+
+impl Default for State {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        State {
+            url: None,
+            history: vec![],
+            links: vec![],
+            cfg: crate::tls::config(),
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 pub fn history(siv: &mut Cursive) {
@@ -100,7 +113,7 @@ pub fn open(siv: &mut Cursive, url: &str) {
 
     st.url = Some(url.clone());
 
-    match maj::get(url.to_string()) {
+    match smol::run(maj::get(url.to_string(), st.cfg.clone())) {
         Ok(resp) => {
             st.history.push(url.clone());
             show(siv, url.to_string().as_str(), resp);
@@ -200,14 +213,12 @@ pub fn render(body: &str) -> StyledString {
     for node in doc {
         match node {
             Text(line) => styled.append(StyledString::plain(line)),
-            Link { to, name } => {
-                match name {
-                    None => styled.append(StyledString::styled(to, Style::from(Effect::Underline))),
-                    Some(name) => {
-                        styled.append(StyledString::styled(name, Style::from(Effect::Underline)))
-                    }
+            Link { to, name } => match name {
+                None => styled.append(StyledString::styled(to, Style::from(Effect::Underline))),
+                Some(name) => {
+                    styled.append(StyledString::styled(name, Style::from(Effect::Underline)))
                 }
-            }
+            },
             Preformatted(data) => styled.append(StyledString::plain(data)),
             Heading { level, body } => styled.append(StyledString::styled(
                 format!("{} {}", "#".repeat(level as usize), body),
diff --git a/majc/src/main.rs b/majc/src/main.rs
index b3bd9d2..53ae9a3 100644
--- a/majc/src/main.rs
+++ b/majc/src/main.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ use cursive::{event::Key, menu::MenuTree};
 pub(crate) mod commands;
 pub(crate) mod gemini;
 pub(crate) mod theme;
+pub(crate) mod tls;
 
 fn main() {
     cursive::logger::init();
diff --git a/majc/src/tls.rs b/majc/src/tls.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a6e853
--- /dev/null
+++ b/majc/src/tls.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+use tokio_rustls::rustls;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+pub fn config() -> rustls::ClientConfig {
+    let mut config = rustls::ClientConfig::new();
+    config
+        .dangerous()
+        .set_certificate_verifier(Arc::new(NoCertificateVerification {}));
+
+    config
+}
+
+struct NoCertificateVerification {}
+
+impl rustls::ServerCertVerifier for NoCertificateVerification {
+    fn verify_server_cert(
+        &self,
+        _roots: &rustls::RootCertStore,
+        _presented_certs: &[rustls::Certificate],
+        _dns_name: webpki::DNSNameRef<'_>,
+        _ocsp: &[u8],
+    ) -> Result<rustls::ServerCertVerified, rustls::TLSError> {
+        Ok(rustls::ServerCertVerified::assertion())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/client.rs b/src/client.rs
index 107a764..e1db0a6 100644
--- a/src/client.rs
+++ b/src/client.rs
@@ -1,27 +1,15 @@
 use crate::Response;
-use rustls::{ClientConfig, ClientSession, Stream, TLSError};
-use std::{io::prelude::*, net::TcpStream, sync::Arc};
+use std::{io::Cursor, sync::Arc};
+use tokio::{
+    io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt},
+    net::TcpStream,
+};
+use tokio_rustls::{
+    rustls::{TLSError},
+    TlsConnector,
+};
 use url::Url;
 
-fn config() -> ClientConfig {
-    let mut config = ClientConfig::new();
-    config.dangerous().set_certificate_verifier(Arc::new(NoCertificateVerification{}));
-
-    config
-}
-
-struct NoCertificateVerification {}
-
-impl rustls::ServerCertVerifier for NoCertificateVerification {
-    fn verify_server_cert(&self,
-                          _roots: &rustls::RootCertStore,
-                          _presented_certs: &[rustls::Certificate],
-                          _dns_name: webpki::DNSNameRef<'_>,
-                          _ocsp: &[u8]) -> Result<rustls::ServerCertVerified, rustls::TLSError> {
-        Ok(rustls::ServerCertVerified::assertion())
-    }
-}
-
 #[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
 pub enum Error {
     #[error("TLS error: {0:?}")]
@@ -43,7 +31,7 @@ pub enum Error {
     InvalidScheme(String),
 }
 
-pub fn get<T>(u: T) -> Result<crate::Response, Error>
+pub async fn get<T>(u: T, cfg: tokio_rustls::rustls::ClientConfig) -> Result<crate::Response, Error>
 where
     T: Into<String>,
 {
@@ -53,38 +41,73 @@ where
         ur.set_port(Some(1965)).unwrap();
     }
 
-    if ur.scheme() == "" {
-        let _ = ur.set_scheme("gemini");
-    }
-
     if ur.scheme() != "gemini" {
         return Err(Error::InvalidScheme(ur.scheme().to_string()));
     }
 
-    let cfg = Arc::new(config());
+    let cfg = Arc::new(cfg);
     let host = ur.host_str().unwrap();
-    let mut sock = TcpStream::connect(&format!("{}:{}", host, ur.port().unwrap()))?;
     let name_ref = webpki::DNSNameRef::try_from_ascii_str(host)?;
-    let mut client = ClientSession::new(&cfg, name_ref);
-    let mut tls = Stream::new(&mut client, &mut sock);
+    let config = TlsConnector::from(cfg);
+
+    let sock = TcpStream::connect(&format!("{}:{}", host, ur.port().unwrap())).await?;
+    let mut tls = config.connect(name_ref, sock).await?;
 
     let req = format!("{}\r\n", u);
     log::trace!("writing request {:?}", req);
-    tls.write(req.as_bytes())?;
-    Ok(Response::parse(&mut tls)?)
+    tls.write(req.as_bytes()).await?;
+    let mut buf: Vec<u8> = vec![];
+    tls.read_to_end(&mut buf).await?;
+    Ok(Response::parse(&mut Cursor::new(buf))?)
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
+    use tokio_rustls::rustls;
+
+    fn config() -> rustls::ClientConfig {
+        let mut config = rustls::ClientConfig::new();
+        config
+            .dangerous()
+            .set_certificate_verifier(Arc::new(NoCertificateVerification {}));
+
+        config
+    }
+
+    struct NoCertificateVerification {}
+
+    impl rustls::ServerCertVerifier for NoCertificateVerification {
+        fn verify_server_cert(
+            &self,
+            _roots: &rustls::RootCertStore,
+            _presented_certs: &[rustls::Certificate],
+            _dns_name: webpki::DNSNameRef<'_>,
+            _ocsp: &[u8],
+        ) -> Result<rustls::ServerCertVerified, rustls::TLSError> {
+            Ok(rustls::ServerCertVerified::assertion())
+        }
+    }
+
     use super::*;
-    use crate::*;
 
-    #[test]
-    fn gemini_homepage() -> Result<(), Error> {
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn gemini_homepage() -> Result<(), Error> {
         let _ = pretty_env_logger::try_init();
-        let resp = get("gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/".to_string())?;
+        let resp = get("gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/".to_string(), config()).await?;
 
-        assert_eq!(resp.status, StatusCode::Success);
+        assert_eq!(resp.status, crate::StatusCode::Success);
+        assert_eq!(resp.meta, "text/gemini");
+        assert_ne!(resp.body.len(), 0);
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn gus() -> Result<(), Error> {
+        let _ = pretty_env_logger::try_init();
+        let resp = get("gemini://gus.guru/".to_string(), config()).await?;
+
+        assert_eq!(resp.status, crate::StatusCode::Success);
         assert_eq!(resp.meta, "text/gemini");
         assert_ne!(resp.body.len(), 0);
 
diff --git a/src/response.rs b/src/response.rs
index 1858060..46b0cf2 100644
--- a/src/response.rs
+++ b/src/response.rs
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ impl Response {
                             result.body = data;
                             return Ok(result);
                         }
+                        panic!("got here: {}, {:?}", n, state);
                     }
                 }