diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d903e175..e46e9b28 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -154,19 +154,7 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
 		<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
 		<version>3.0</version>
 	</dependency>
-		
-	<dependency>
-		<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-		<artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-		<version>4.4.4</version>
-	</dependency>
-		
-	<dependency>
-		<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-		<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-		<version>4.5.2</version>
-	</dependency>
-    </dependencies>
+    </dependencies> 
 
     <!-- The current maintainers of the plugin-->
     <developers>
diff --git a/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/InfluxDbPublisher.java b/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/InfluxDbPublisher.java
index 2ac2f058..e180ad95 100644
--- a/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/InfluxDbPublisher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/InfluxDbPublisher.java
@@ -239,13 +239,13 @@ public void perform(Run<?, ?> build, FilePath workspace, Launcher launcher, Task
             addPoints(pointsToWrite, perfGen, listener);
         }
 
-        /**
-        * SonarQubePointGenerator sonarGen = new SonarQubePointGenerator(measurementRenderer, customPrefix, build);
-        * if (sonarGen.hasReport()) {
-        *     listener.getLogger().println("[InfluxDB Plugin] SonarQube data found. Writing to InfluxDB...");
-        *     addPoints(pointsToWrite, sonarGen, listener);
-        * }
-        */
+        
+        SonarQubePointGenerator sonarGen = new SonarQubePointGenerator(measurementRenderer, customPrefix, build);
+        if (sonarGen.hasReport()) {
+            listener.getLogger().println("[InfluxDB Plugin] SonarQube data found. Writing to InfluxDB...");
+            addPoints(pointsToWrite, sonarGen, listener);
+        }
+        
         
         ChangeLogPointGenerator changeLogGen = new ChangeLogPointGenerator(measurementRenderer, customPrefix, build);
         if (changeLogGen.hasReport()) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/generators/SonarQubePointGenerator.java b/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/generators/SonarQubePointGenerator.java
index 5b61d16e..b46ed1e7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/generators/SonarQubePointGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/jenkinsci/plugins/influxdb/generators/SonarQubePointGenerator.java
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.influxdb.dto.Point;
 
 import hudson.model.Run;
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@
 import net.sf.json.JSONObject;
 
 public class SonarQubePointGenerator extends AbstractPointGenerator {
-    
+
 	public static final String BUILD_DISPLAY_NAME = "display_name";
 	public static final String SONARQUBE_LINES_OF_CODE = "lines_of_code";
 	public static final String SONARQUBE_COMPLEXITY = "complexity";
@@ -61,11 +60,11 @@ public boolean hasReport() {
 			if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(sonarBuildLink)) {
 				setSonarDetails(sonarBuildLink);
 				return true;
-			} 
+			}
 		} catch (IOException e) {
 			//
 		}
-		
+
 		return false;
 	}
 
@@ -79,63 +78,58 @@ public void setSonarDetails(String sonarBuildLink) {
 		} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
 			//
 		}
-		
+
 	}
+
 	public Point[] generate() {
 		Point point = null;
 		try {
 			point = buildPoint(measurementName("sonarqube_data"), customPrefix, build)
 					.addField(BUILD_DISPLAY_NAME, build.getDisplayName())
-					.addField(SONARQUBE_CRTITCAL_ISSUES,
-							getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "CRITICAL"))
-					.addField(SONARQUBE_BLOCKER_ISSUES,
-							getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "BLOCKER"))
-					.addField(SONARQUBE_MAJOR_ISSUES,
-							getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "MAJOR"))
-					.addField(SONARQUBE_MINOR_ISSUES,
-							getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "MINOR"))
-					.addField(SONARQUBE_INFO_ISSUES,
-							getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "INFO"))
-					.addField(SONARQUBE_LINES_OF_CODE,
-							getLinesofCode(this.SONAR_METRICS_URL))
-					.build();
+					.addField(SONARQUBE_CRTITCAL_ISSUES, getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "CRITICAL"))
+					.addField(SONARQUBE_BLOCKER_ISSUES, getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "BLOCKER"))
+					.addField(SONARQUBE_MAJOR_ISSUES, getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "MAJOR"))
+					.addField(SONARQUBE_MINOR_ISSUES, getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "MINOR"))
+					.addField(SONARQUBE_INFO_ISSUES, getSonarIssues(this.SONAR_ISSUES_URL, "INFO"))
+					.addField(SONARQUBE_LINES_OF_CODE, getLinesofCode(this.SONAR_METRICS_URL)).build();
 		} catch (IOException e) {
-			//handle
+			// handle
 		}
 		return new Point[] { point };
 	}
 
-
 	public String getResult(String request) throws IOException {
-		CloseableHttpClient client = null;
-		CloseableHttpResponse response = null;
 		StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
-		try {
-
-			client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
-			HttpGet getrequest = new HttpGet(request);
-
-			response = client.execute(getrequest);
-
-			BufferedReader rd;
-
-			rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
+		
+		try 
+		{
+			URL url = new URL(request);
+			HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+			conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
+			conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
+
+			if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
+				throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : " + conn.getResponseCode());
+			}
 
+			BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((conn.getInputStream())));
 			String line = "";
 			while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
 				result.append(line);
 			}
 
-		} catch (UnsupportedOperationException | IOException e) {
-			//handle
-		} finally {
-			if (response != null) {
-				response.close();
-			}
-			if (client != null) {
-				client.close();
-			}
+			conn.disconnect();
+
+		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+
+			e.printStackTrace();
+
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+
+			e.printStackTrace();
+
 		}
+
 		return result.toString();
 	}
 
@@ -159,7 +153,6 @@ private String getSonarProjectURLFromBuildLogs(Run<?, ?> build) throws IOExcepti
 		return url;
 	}
 
-
 	private String getSonarProjectName(String url) throws URISyntaxException {
 		URI uri = new URI(url);
 		String[] projectUrl = uri.getPath().split("/");
@@ -180,12 +173,12 @@ public int getLinesofCode(String url) throws IOException {
 				linesofcodeCount = metricsObject.getInt("value");
 			}
 		}
-		
+
 		return linesofcodeCount;
 	}
 
 	public int getSonarIssues(String url, String severity) throws IOException {
-		String output = getResult(url+severity);
+		String output = getResult(url + severity);
 		return JSONObject.fromObject(output).getInt("total");
 	}