diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
deleted file mode 100644
index 509ced39685d09f8fbbc73b050aa063825f1f1f8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/CODEOWNERS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# Please see https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/ for more information
-
-# Global owner
-*		@keks
-
-# Subsystem specific owners
diff --git a/http/errors_test.go b/http/errors_test.go
index f7f5e8d835efecbefcb1a95503c5915af62506f9..88c963dd9880167515754894970d2b9358511db0 100644
--- a/http/errors_test.go
+++ b/http/errors_test.go
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ func TestErrors(t *testing.T) {
 				cmds.EncLong: "foobar",
 			},
 			status:  "400 Bad Request",
-			bodyStr: `invalid encoding: foobar`,
+			bodyStr: "invalid encoding: foobar\n",
 		},
 
 		{
diff --git a/http/handler.go b/http/handler.go
index db01c448460dfc9538d55ab028442da3ac810fcb..35b069ef48cf07e1ab27af5b3284504a8dc604a8 100644
--- a/http/handler.go
+++ b/http/handler.go
@@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}()
 
 	if !allowOrigin(r, h.cfg) || !allowReferer(r, h.cfg) {
-		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusForbidden)
-		w.Write([]byte("403 - Forbidden"))
+		http.Error(w, "403 - Forbidden", http.StatusForbidden)
 		log.Warningf("API blocked request to %s. (possible CSRF)", r.URL)
 		return
 	}
@@ -122,12 +121,12 @@ func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
 	req, err := parseRequest(r, h.root)
 	if err != nil {
+		status := http.StatusBadRequest
 		if err == ErrNotFound {
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		} else {
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+			status = http.StatusNotFound
 		}
-		w.Write([]byte(err.Error()))
+
+		http.Error(w, err.Error(), status)
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -146,8 +145,7 @@ func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
 	re, err := NewResponseEmitter(w, r.Method, req, withRequestBodyEOFChan(bodyEOFChan))
 	if err != nil {
-		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
-		w.Write([]byte(err.Error()))
+		http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusBadRequest)
 		return
 	}