Revert "Merge pull request #120 from guardian/status"

Fell in to the old HTTP / HTTPS trap again :(

This reverts commit 7c85ba2968b697a51bb8b72e02a5da6381462036, reversing
changes made to b85998cf05db4894bb8ba3b037df8b3612b78a70.
Merge pull request #121 from guardian/revert-status

Revert "Merge pull request #120 from guardian/status"