diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c57af4ef..c11f6104 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@
   		<artifactId>wink-json4j</artifactId>
   		<version>1.4</version>
   	</dependency>
-  </dependencies>
+  <dependency>
+   <groupId>io.github.pixee</groupId>
+   <artifactId>java-security-toolkit</artifactId>
+  </dependency>
+ </dependencies>
   
   <profiles>
   	<profile> 
@@ -139,4 +143,16 @@
     <tag>HEAD</tag>
   </scm>
   
+ <dependencyManagement>
+  <dependencies>
+   <dependency>
+    <groupId>io.github.pixee</groupId>
+    <artifactId>java-security-toolkit</artifactId>
+    <version>${versions.java-security-toolkit}</version>
+   </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+ </dependencyManagement>
+ <properties>
+  <versions.java-security-toolkit>1.2.0</versions.java-security-toolkit>
+ </properties>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpClient.java b/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpClient.java
index 75a23018..cccdb6c5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpClient.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpClient.java
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
  */
 
 package com.hcl.appscan.sdk.http;
+import io.github.pixee.security.HostValidator;
+import io.github.pixee.security.Urls;
 import org.apache.wink.json4j.JSONException;
 import org.apache.wink.json4j.JSONObject;
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
@@ -330,7 +332,7 @@ private HttpResponse makeRequest(Method method, String url,
 	
 	private HttpURLConnection makeConnection(String url, Method method,
 			Map<String, String> headerProperties) throws IOException {
-		URL requestURL = new URL(url);
+		URL requestURL = Urls.create(url, Urls.HTTP_PROTOCOLS, HostValidator.DENY_COMMON_INFRASTRUCTURE_TARGETS);
 		HttpURLConnection conn = null;
 		conn = (HttpURLConnection) requestURL.openConnection(m_proxy);
 		conn.setRequestMethod(method.name());
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpsClient.java b/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpsClient.java
index 982bdae3..72cb0edd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpsClient.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/http/HttpsClient.java
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 package com.hcl.appscan.sdk.http;
 
+import io.github.pixee.security.HostValidator;
+import io.github.pixee.security.Urls;
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 //import java.net.HttpsURLConnection;
@@ -268,7 +270,7 @@ private HttpResponse makeRequest(Method method, String url,
 	
 	private HttpsURLConnection makeConnection(String url, Method method,
 			Map<String, String> headerProperties) throws IOException {
-			URL requestURL = new URL(url);
+			URL requestURL = Urls.create(url, Urls.HTTP_PROTOCOLS, HostValidator.DENY_COMMON_INFRASTRUCTURE_TARGETS);
                 
             try {
 	                SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");