diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6371e5da85..1f931f00fa 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
         <!-- TODO: [ES] hazelcast 3.6 loses data on node shutdown. See hazelcast branch -->
         <hazelcast.version>2.6.10</hazelcast.version>
         <hamcrest.version>1.3</hamcrest.version>
-        <httpclient.version>4.5.12</httpclient.version>
 
         <jaxb.version>2.2.11</jaxb.version>
         <jflex.version>1.6.1</jflex.version>
@@ -418,11 +417,6 @@
                 <artifactId>velocity-engine-core</artifactId>
                 <version>${velocity.version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-                <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-                <version>${httpclient.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
 
             <!-- jsoup HTML parser library @ http://jsoup.org/ -->
             <dependency>
diff --git a/whois-scheduler/pom.xml b/whois-scheduler/pom.xml
index 0fabae3db6..a3218d7867 100644
--- a/whois-scheduler/pom.xml
+++ b/whois-scheduler/pom.xml
@@ -27,10 +27,6 @@
             <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
             <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- testing -->
 
diff --git a/whois-scheduler/src/main/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/LacnicGrsSource.java b/whois-scheduler/src/main/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/LacnicGrsSource.java
index 98b7964afb..f797d11190 100644
--- a/whois-scheduler/src/main/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/LacnicGrsSource.java
+++ b/whois-scheduler/src/main/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/LacnicGrsSource.java
@@ -16,18 +16,15 @@
 import net.ripe.db.whois.common.rpsl.transform.FilterChangedFunction;
 import net.ripe.db.whois.common.source.SourceContext;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.RequestBuilder;
-import org.apache.http.config.SocketConfig;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientProperties;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
+import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
+import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
@@ -50,6 +47,8 @@ class LacnicGrsSource extends GrsSource {
     private final String userId;
     private final String password;
 
+    private Client client;
+
     @Autowired
     LacnicGrsSource(
             @Value("${grs.import.lacnic.source:}") final String source,
@@ -63,12 +62,17 @@ class LacnicGrsSource extends GrsSource {
 
         this.userId = userId;
         this.password = password;
+
+        this.client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
+                .property(ClientProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT, TIMEOUT)
+                .property(ClientProperties.READ_TIMEOUT, TIMEOUT)
+                .build();
     }
 
     @Override
     public void acquireDump(final Path path) throws IOException {
-        final Document loginPage = parse(get("http://lacnic.net/cgi-bin/lacnic/stini?lg=EN"));
-        final String loginAction = "http://lacnic.net" + loginPage.select("form").attr("action");
+        final Document loginPage = parse(get("https://lacnic.net/cgi-bin/lacnic/stini?lg=EN"));
+        final String loginAction = "https://lacnic.net" + loginPage.select("form").attr("action");
 
         post(loginAction);
 
@@ -77,38 +81,16 @@ public void acquireDump(final Path path) throws IOException {
         downloader.downloadTo(logger, new URL(downloadAction), path);
     }
 
-    private String get(final String url) throws IOException {
-        final HttpClient client = HttpClients
-                .custom()
-                .setDefaultSocketConfig(SocketConfig.custom().setSoTimeout(TIMEOUT).build())
-                .build();
-        final HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder
-                .get()
-                .setUri(url)
-                .setConfig(RequestConfig.custom().setConnectTimeout(TIMEOUT).build())
-                .build();
-        return IOUtils.toString(
-                client.execute(request)
-                        .getEntity()
-                        .getContent());
+    private String get(final String url) {
+        return client.target(url).request().get(String.class);
     }
 
-    private String post(final String url) throws IOException {
-        final HttpClient client = HttpClients
-                .custom()
-                .setDefaultSocketConfig(SocketConfig.custom().setSoTimeout(TIMEOUT).build())
-                .build();
-        final HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder
-                .post()
-                .addParameter("handle", userId)
-                .addParameter("passwd", password)
-                .setUri(url)
-                .setConfig(RequestConfig.custom().setConnectTimeout(TIMEOUT).build())
-                .build();
-        return IOUtils.toString(
-                client.execute(request)
-                        .getEntity()
-                        .getContent());
+    private String post(final String url) {
+        return client.target(url)
+                .queryParam("handle", userId)
+                .queryParam("passwd", password)
+                .request()
+                .post(null, String.class);
     }
 
     private static Document parse(final String data) {
diff --git a/whois-scheduler/src/test/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/GrsImporterLacnicManualIntegrationTest.java b/whois-scheduler/src/test/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/GrsImporterLacnicManualIntegrationTest.java
index aed6b1fdb1..840d124614 100644
--- a/whois-scheduler/src/test/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/GrsImporterLacnicManualIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/whois-scheduler/src/test/java/net/ripe/db/whois/scheduler/task/grs/GrsImporterLacnicManualIntegrationTest.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import org.springframework.test.annotation.DirtiesContext;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ public class GrsImporterLacnicManualIntegrationTest extends AbstractSchedulerInt
     private static final File tempDirectory = Files.createTempDir();
 
     @BeforeClass
-    public static void setup_database() throws IOException {
+    public static void setup_database() {
         DatabaseHelper.addGrsDatabases("LACNIC-GRS");
 
         System.setProperty("grs.import.lacnic.source", "LACNIC-GRS");
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ public static void setup_database() throws IOException {
     }
 
     @AfterClass
-    public static void cleanup() throws Exception {
+    public static void cleanup() {
         FileHelper.delete(tempDirectory);
     }
 
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ public void  import_lacnic_grs_download_dump() throws Exception {
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void import_lacnic_grs_use_downloaded_dump() throws Exception {
+    public void import_lacnic_grs_use_downloaded_dump() {
         grsSourceImporter.grsImport(lacnicGrsSource, false);
 
         assertThat(query("-s LACNIC-GRS SOME-MNT"), containsString("mntner:         SOME-MNT"));
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ private void awaitAll(final List<Future> futures) throws ExecutionException, Int
         }
     }
 
-    private String query(final String query) throws Exception {
+    private String query(final String query) {
         return TelnetWhoisClient.queryLocalhost(QueryServer.port, query);
     }
 }