diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a0b26dd..097c602 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,6 +7,5 @@
     "contributors": [{"name":"Nathan Vander Wilt", "email": "nate@calftrail.com", "url":"http://exts.ch"}],
     "description": "Succinct native REST client, for client-side web apps and node.js. Turns URLs into magic JavaScript objects. Supports JSON, CouchDB, OAuth 1.0a, form uploads and more!",
     "licenses": [{"type": "MIT", "url": "https://github.com/natevw/fermata/raw/master/README.md"}],
-    "optionalDependencies": {"node-proxy": "^1.0.0"},
     "main": "fermata"
 }