diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/GetPodsService.java b/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/GetPodsService.java
index c3aac33c..9d39bfa1 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/GetPodsService.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/GetPodsService.java
@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ import android.util.Log;
 
 import com.github.dfa.diaspora_android.App;
 
-import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
-import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.StatusLine;
-import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
 import org.json.JSONArray;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
@@ -80,7 +74,7 @@ public class GetPodsService extends Service {
                 //HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
                 List<String> list = null;
                 try {
-                    HttpsURLConnection connection = NetCipher.getHttpsURLConnection("http://podupti.me/api.php?key=4r45tg&format=json");
+                    HttpsURLConnection connection = NetCipher.getHttpsURLConnection("https://podupti.me/api.php?key=4r45tg&format=json");
                     int statusCode = connection.getResponseCode();
                     if (statusCode == 200) {
                         InputStream content = connection.getInputStream();
@@ -91,7 +85,6 @@ public class GetPodsService extends Service {
                             builder.append(line);
                         }
                     } else {
-                        //TODO  Notify User about failure
                         Log.e(TAG, "Failed to download list of pods");
                     }
                 } catch (IOException e) {
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ImageDownloadTask.java b/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ImageDownloadTask.java
index 2b5a3d23..9d4f6aac 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ImageDownloadTask.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ImageDownloadTask.java
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 
+import info.guardianproject.netcipher.NetCipher;
+
 /**
  * Created by Gregor Santner (gsantner) on 24.03.16.
  */
@@ -36,7 +38,8 @@ public class ImageDownloadTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Bitmap> {
         Bitmap bitmap = null;
         FileOutputStream out = null;
         try {
-            InputStream in = new java.net.URL(url).openStream();
+            //InputStream in = new java.net.URL(url).openStream();
+            InputStream in = NetCipher.getHttpsURLConnection(url).getInputStream();
             bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
 
             // Save to file if not null
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ProfileFetchTask.java b/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ProfileFetchTask.java
index f54774f0..ef66e4ba 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ProfileFetchTask.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/github/dfa/diaspora_android/task/ProfileFetchTask.java
@@ -11,9 +11,12 @@ import com.github.dfa.diaspora_android.data.PodUserProfile;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
 
+import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
+
+import info.guardianproject.netcipher.NetCipher;
+
 /**
  * Created by Gregor Santner (gsantner) on 30.03.16.
  */
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ public class ProfileFetchTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
 
         try {
             URL url = new URL("https://" + app.getSettings().getPodDomain() + "/stream");
-            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+            HttpsURLConnection conn = NetCipher.getHttpsURLConnection(url);
             conn.setReadTimeout(10000);
             conn.setConnectTimeout(15000);
             conn.setRequestMethod("GET");