diff --git a/src/main/java/vic/mod/integratedcircuits/IntegratedCircuits.java b/src/main/java/vic/mod/integratedcircuits/IntegratedCircuits.java
index 7fd67af..7aab9bb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/vic/mod/integratedcircuits/IntegratedCircuits.java
+++ b/src/main/java/vic/mod/integratedcircuits/IntegratedCircuits.java
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 package vic.mod.integratedcircuits;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
 import net.minecraft.item.Item;
 
-import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicResponseHandler;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 
 import vic.mod.integratedcircuits.compat.BPRedstoneProvider;
@@ -171,14 +170,27 @@ public void postInit(FMLPostInitializationEvent event)
 				@Override
 				public void run()
 				{
+					//I would have done it with commons, but it doesn't let me. So this is pretty much copied from AW
+					//https://github.com/RiskyKen/Armourers-Workshop
 					try {
-    					HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
-    					HttpUriRequest request = new HttpGet(new URL("http://bit.ly/1GIaUA6").toURI());
-    					request.setHeader("Referer", "http://" + Constants.MOD_VERSION);
-    					request.setHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0");
-    					String newestVersion = client.execute(request, new BasicResponseHandler());
+						String location = "http://bit.ly/1GIaUA6";
+						HttpURLConnection conn = null;
+						while(location != null && !location.isEmpty()) {
+							URL url = new URL(location);
+							if(conn != null) conn.disconnect();
+
+							conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+							conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0");
+							conn.setRequestProperty("Referer", "http://" + Constants.MOD_VERSION);
+							conn.connect();
+							location = conn.getHeaderField("Location");
+						}
+
+						if(conn == null) throw new NullPointerException();
+    					String newestVersion = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream(), Charset.forName("UTF-8"))).readLine();
     					// TODO version checker? I don't really like them but we have the information now...
     					logger.info("Your version: {}, Newest version: {}", Constants.MOD_VERSION, newestVersion);
+    					conn.disconnect();
 					} catch (Exception e) {
 						e.printStackTrace();
 					}