diff --git a/edmond/bot.py b/edmond/bot.py
index 214b733..3065136 100644
--- a/edmond/bot.py
+++ b/edmond/bot.py
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class Bot(irc.client.SimpleIRCClient, Logger):
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             self.log_i("Caught keyboard interrupt.")
         except Exception as exc:
-            self.log_c(f"Caught unhandled {type(exc)}: {exc}")
+            self.log_c(f"Caught unhandled {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
             _, _, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
             for line in traceback.format_tb(exc_traceback):
                 self.log_d(line.rstrip())
diff --git a/edmond/utils.py b/edmond/utils.py
index 514c032..b96a779 100644
--- a/edmond/utils.py
+++ b/edmond/utils.py
@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
 import random
-from typing import Optional
+from typing import Callable, Optional
 
 import requests
 
 
-def http_get(url: str) -> Optional[str]:
-    response = requests.get(url)
-    if response.status_code == 200:
-        return response.text
-    return None
+def http_get(url: str, log_e: Optional[Callable] = None) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Get the HTML as text from this URL.
+    log_e is an optional error logging function."""
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(url)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+    except OSError as exc:
+        if log_e:
+            log_e(f"http_get error: {exc}")
+        return None
+    return response.text
 
 
 def proc(proba_percentage: int) -> bool: