diff --git a/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml b/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml
index ab2a0f38..c1d4e03d 100644
--- a/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml
+++ b/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ keywords = ["peer-to-peer", "libp2p", "networking"]
 categories = ["network-programming", "asynchronous"]
 
 [dependencies]
-async-tls = "0.6"
+async-tls = "0.7.0"
 bytes = "0.5"
 either = "1.5.3"
 futures = "0.3.1"
 libp2p-core = { version = "0.17.0", path = "../../core" }
 log = "0.4.8"
 quicksink = "0.1"
-rustls = "0.16"
+rustls = "0.17.0"
 rw-stream-sink = "0.2.0"
 soketto = { version = "0.3", features = ["deflate"] }
 url = "2.1"
diff --git a/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs b/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs
index 830b645d..191636a0 100644
--- a/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs
+++ b/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs
@@ -308,11 +308,6 @@ where
                 let dns_name = dns_name.expect("for use_tls we have checked that dns_name is some");
                 trace!("starting TLS handshake with {}", address);
                 let stream = self.tls_config.client.connect(&dns_name, stream)
-                    .map_err(|e| {
-                        // We should never enter here as we passed a `DNSNameRef` to `connect`.
-                        debug!("invalid domain name: {:?}", dns_name);
-                        Error::Tls(e.into())
-                    })?
                     .map_err(|e| {
                         debug!("TLS handshake with {} failed: {}", address, e);
                         Error::Tls(tls::Error::from(e))