diff --git a/QuantcastAndroidSdk/AndroidManifest.xml b/QuantcastAndroidSdk/AndroidManifest.xml
index 39d4720..ee28e9f 100644
--- a/QuantcastAndroidSdk/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/QuantcastAndroidSdk/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
     <application
         android:usesCleartextTraffic="true">
-        <uses-library android:name="org.apache.http.legacy" android:required="false"/>
 
         <activity android:name="com.quantcast.measurement.service.AboutQuantcastScreen"
             android:label="OtherName"/>
diff --git a/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCDataUploader.java b/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCDataUploader.java
index 6cf03e8..c18a799 100644
--- a/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCDataUploader.java
+++ b/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCDataUploader.java
@@ -12,21 +12,17 @@
 
 package com.quantcast.measurement.service;
 
-import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
-import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
-import org.apache.http.params.CoreProtocolPNames;
-import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
-import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;
-import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
 import org.json.JSONArray;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Collection;
 
 class QCDataUploader {
@@ -66,25 +62,24 @@ String synchronousUploadEvents(Collection<QCEvent> events) {
         }
 
         int code;
-        String url = QCUtility.addScheme(UPLOAD_URL_WITHOUT_SCHEME);
-        final DefaultHttpClient defaultHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
-        defaultHttpClient.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USER_AGENT,
-                System.getProperty("http.agent"));
-        final BasicHttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
 
+        HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
         try {
-            HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);
-            post.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
-            StringEntity se = new StringEntity(upload.toString(), HTTP.UTF_8);
-            post.setEntity(se);
-
-            HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
-            params.setBooleanParameter("http.protocol.expect-continue", false);
-            post.setParams(params);
-
-            HttpResponse response = defaultHttpClient.execute(post, localContext);
-            code = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
-        }catch (UnknownHostException uhe) {
+            URL url = new URL(QCUtility.addScheme(UPLOAD_URL_WITHOUT_SCHEME));
+            urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", System.getProperty("http.agent"));
+            urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
+            urlConnection.setChunkedStreamingMode(0);
+
+            OutputStream os = urlConnection.getOutputStream();
+            BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(os, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+            writer.write(upload.toString());
+            writer.flush();
+            writer.close();
+            os.close();
+
+            code = urlConnection.getResponseCode();
+        } catch (UnknownHostException uhe) {
             QCLog.e(TAG, "Not connected to Internet", uhe);
             //don't send this error because its ok if they don't have internet connection
             return null;
@@ -92,6 +87,10 @@ String synchronousUploadEvents(Collection<QCEvent> events) {
             QCLog.e(TAG, "Could not upload events", e);
             QCMeasurement.INSTANCE.logSDKError("json-upload-failure", e.toString(), null);
             return null;
+        } finally {
+            if (urlConnection != null) {
+                urlConnection.disconnect();
+            }
         }
 
         if (!isSuccessful(code)) {
diff --git a/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCPolicy.java b/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCPolicy.java
index eaf9cd0..9407de3 100644
--- a/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCPolicy.java
+++ b/QuantcastAndroidSdk/src/com/quantcast/measurement/service/QCPolicy.java
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
 import android.net.Uri;
 import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;
 
-import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.params.CoreProtocolPNames;
 import org.json.JSONArray;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
@@ -30,6 +26,8 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -150,19 +148,23 @@ private void getPolicy(Context context) {
         QCLog.i(TAG, "checking load policy: " + loadedPolicy);
         if (!loadedPolicy) {
             String jsonString = null;
-            DefaultHttpClient defaultHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
-            defaultHttpClient.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USER_AGENT,
-                    System.getProperty("http.agent"));
+
             InputStream inputStream = null;
+            HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
             try {
-                HttpGet method = new HttpGet(m_policyURL);
-                HttpResponse response = defaultHttpClient.execute(method);
-                inputStream = response.getEntity().getContent();
+                URL url = new URL(m_policyURL);
+                urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+                urlConnection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", System.getProperty("http.agent"));
+
+                inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
                 jsonString = readStreamToString(inputStream);
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 QCLog.e(TAG, "Could not download policy", e);
                 QCMeasurement.INSTANCE.logSDKError("policy-download-failure", e.getMessage(), null);
             } finally {
+                if (urlConnection != null) {
+                    urlConnection.disconnect();
+                }
                 if (inputStream != null) {
                     try {
                         inputStream.close();