diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de3bc2b..f03eaab 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 * Don't crash loudly when fetching webfinger for Diaspora that does not contain XML.
 
+* Add missing `response.raise_for_status()` call to the `fetch_document` network helper
+  when fetching with given URL. Error status was already being raised correctly when
+  fetching by domain and path. 
+
 ## [0.19.0] - 2019-12-15
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/federation/hostmeta/fetchers.py b/federation/hostmeta/fetchers.py
index 6076761..538f4e2 100644
--- a/federation/hostmeta/fetchers.py
+++ b/federation/hostmeta/fetchers.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def fetch_nodeinfo_document(host):
         return
 
     doc, status_code, error = fetch_document(url=url)
-    if status_code >= 300 and not doc:
+    if not doc:
         return
     try:
         doc = json.loads(doc)
diff --git a/federation/utils/network.py b/federation/utils/network.py
index 2dc2f74..2599e70 100644
--- a/federation/utils/network.py
+++ b/federation/utils/network.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ def fetch_document(url=None, host=None, path="/", timeout=10, raise_ssl_errors=T
     :arg path: Path without domain (defaults to "/")
     :arg timeout: Seconds to wait for response (defaults to 10)
     :arg raise_ssl_errors: Pass False if you want to try HTTP even for sites with SSL errors (default True)
+    :arg extra_headers: Optional extra headers dictionary to add to requests
     :returns: Tuple of document (str or None), status code (int or None) and error (an exception class instance or None)
     :raises ValueError: If neither url nor host are given as parameters
     """
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ def fetch_document(url=None, host=None, path="/", timeout=10, raise_ssl_errors=T
         try:
             response = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout, headers=headers)
             logger.debug("fetch_document: found document, code %s", response.status_code)
+            response.raise_for_status()
             return response.text, response.status_code, None
         except RequestException as ex:
             logger.debug("fetch_document: exception %s", ex)