Christian noted: More broadly we probably want to migrate to the new maven package for httpclient v3: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient (currently used) v4: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient v5: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.httpcomponents.client5/httpclient5