diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1644ee23..dffddf18 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -186,11 +186,6 @@
 			<artifactId>dropwizard-hibernate</artifactId>
 			<version>${dropwizard.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>io.dropwizard</groupId>
-			<artifactId>dropwizard-client</artifactId>
-			<version>${dropwizard.version}</version>
-		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>io.dropwizard</groupId>
 			<artifactId>dropwizard-migrations</artifactId>
@@ -207,6 +202,12 @@
 			<version>${dropwizard.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+			<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+			<version>4.4</version>
+		</dependency>
+
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.wordnik</groupId>
 			<artifactId>swagger-jaxrs</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java
index 78921ae8..d26aec84 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
 import org.apache.http.client.protocol.HttpClientContext;
 import org.apache.http.config.ConnectionConfig;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
+import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ public class HttpGetter {
 		builder.disableAutomaticRetries();
 
 		builder.setSslcontext(SSL_CONTEXT);
-		builder.setHostnameVerifier(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
+		builder.setSSLHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
 
 		RequestConfig.Builder configBuilder = RequestConfig.custom();
 		configBuilder.setCookieSpec(CookieSpecs.IGNORE_COOKIES);