diff --git a/js/ui/environment.js b/js/ui/environment.js
index d3ea54387..bd372ce26 100644
--- a/js/ui/environment.js
+++ b/js/ui/environment.js
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ imports.gi.versions.Soup = '3.0';
 imports.gi.versions.TelepathyGLib = '0.12';
 imports.gi.versions.TelepathyLogger = '0.2';
 
+try {
+    const Soup_ = imports.gi.Soup;
+} catch (e) {
+    imports.gi.versions.Soup = '2.4';
+    const { Soup } = imports.gi;
+    _injectSoup3Compat(Soup);
+}
+
 const { Clutter, Gio, GLib, GObject, Meta, Polkit, Shell, St } = imports.gi;
 const Gettext = imports.gettext;
 const System = imports.system;
@@ -69,6 +77,44 @@ function _patchLayoutClass(layoutClass, styleProps) {
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Mimick the Soup 3 APIs we use when falling back to Soup 2.4
+ *
+ * @param {object} Soup 2.4 namespace
+ * @returns {void}
+ */
+function _injectSoup3Compat(Soup) {
+    const ByteArray = imports.byteArray;
+
+    Soup.StatusCode = Soup.KnownStatusCode;
+
+    Soup.Message.new_from_encoded_form =
+        function (method, uri, form) {
+            const soupUri = new Soup.URI(uri);
+            soupUri.set_query(form);
+            return Soup.Message.new_from_uri(method, soupUri);
+        };
+    Soup.Message.prototype.set_request_body_from_bytes =
+        function (contentType, bytes) {
+            this.set_request(
+                contentType,
+                Soup.MemoryUse.COPY,
+                ByteArray.toString(bytes.get_data()));
+        };
+
+    Soup.Session.prototype.send_and_read_async =
+        function (message, prio, cancellable, callback) {
+            this.queue_message(message, () => callback(this, message));
+        };
+    Soup.Session.prototype.send_and_read_finish =
+        function (message) {
+            if (message.status_code !== Soup.KnownStatusCode.OK)
+                return null;
+
+            return message.response_body.flatten().get_as_bytes();
+        };
+}
+
 function _makeEaseCallback(params, cleanup) {
     let onComplete = params.onComplete;
     delete params.onComplete;