diff --git a/micropython/uaiohttpclient/manifest.py b/micropython/uaiohttpclient/manifest.py
index 72dd9671..a204d57b 100644
--- a/micropython/uaiohttpclient/manifest.py
+++ b/micropython/uaiohttpclient/manifest.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-metadata(description="HTTP client module for MicroPython uasyncio module", version="0.5.1")
+metadata(description="HTTP client module for MicroPython uasyncio module", version="0.5.2")
 
 # Originally written by Paul Sokolovsky.
 
diff --git a/micropython/uaiohttpclient/uaiohttpclient.py b/micropython/uaiohttpclient/uaiohttpclient.py
index 25b2e62a..bcda6203 100644
--- a/micropython/uaiohttpclient/uaiohttpclient.py
+++ b/micropython/uaiohttpclient/uaiohttpclient.py
@@ -46,9 +46,16 @@ def request_raw(method, url):
     except ValueError:
         proto, dummy, host = url.split("/", 2)
         path = ""
+
+    if ":" in host:
+        host, port = host.split(":")
+        port = int(port)
+    else:
+        port = 80
+
     if proto != "http:":
         raise ValueError("Unsupported protocol: " + proto)
-    reader, writer = yield from asyncio.open_connection(host, 80)
+    reader, writer = yield from asyncio.open_connection(host, port)
     # Use protocol 1.0, because 1.1 always allows to use chunked transfer-encoding
     # But explicitly set Connection: close, even though this should be default for 1.0,
     # because some servers misbehave w/o it.