diff --git a/nzbhydra/infos.py b/nzbhydra/infos.py
index dc9c4b5..7faa0fc 100644
--- a/nzbhydra/infos.py
+++ b/nzbhydra/infos.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def imdbid_to_tmdbid(imdbid):
 
 
 def find_series_ids(input):
-    info = webaccess.get("http://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=%s" % input)
+    info = webaccess.get("https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=%s" % input)
     info.raise_for_status()
     results = []
     for result in info.json():
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def title_from_id(identifier_key, identifier_value):
         if identifier_key == "imdbid":
             if identifier_value[0:2] != "tt":
                 identifier_value = "tt%s" % identifier_value
-            url = furl("http://www.omdbapi.com").add({"i": identifier_value, "plot": "short", "r": "json"}).tostr()
+            url = furl("https://www.omdbapi.com").add({"i": identifier_value, "plot": "short", "r": "json"}).tostr()
             omdb = webaccess.get(url)
             return omdb.json()["Title"]
 
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def title_from_id(identifier_key, identifier_value):
             raise AttributeError("Unknown identifier %s" % identifier_key)
 
         tvmaze_key = "tvrage" if identifier_key == "rid" else "thetvdb"
-        tvmaze = webaccess.get(furl("http://api.tvmaze.com/lookup/shows").add({tvmaze_key: identifier_value}).url)
+        tvmaze = webaccess.get(furl("https://api.tvmaze.com/lookup/shows").add({tvmaze_key: identifier_value}).url)
         if tvmaze.status_code == 404:
             #Unfortunately TVMaze returns a 404 for unknown/invalid IDs
             raise ExternalApiInfoException("Unable to find id %s and value %s at TVMaze" % (identifier_key, identifier_value))
@@ -286,4 +286,4 @@ def convertIdToAny(fromType, possibleToTypes, id):
     
     
     
-    
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+    
diff --git a/nzbhydra/socks_proxy.py b/nzbhydra/socks_proxy.py
index 5eb64b6..bf55666 100644
--- a/nzbhydra/socks_proxy.py
+++ b/nzbhydra/socks_proxy.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def setSOCKSproxy(sockshost,socksport):
     socket.socket = socks.socksocket
 
     try:
-        return urllib2.urlopen('http://ipinfo.io/ip').read().rstrip()
+        return urllib2.urlopen('https://ipinfo.io/ip').read().rstrip()
     except:
         return None
 
diff --git a/nzbhydra/webaccess.py b/nzbhydra/webaccess.py
index 3e7ecbb..6ffcc3d 100644
--- a/nzbhydra/webaccess.py
+++ b/nzbhydra/webaccess.py
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ def getCleanProxyUrl(url):
 def get(url, **kwargs):
     global proxies
     myproxies = proxies if proxies is not None and furl(url).host not in ["127.0.0.1", "localhost"] and "192.168" not in str(url) else None
-    return requests.get(url, proxies=myproxies, verify=False, **kwargs)
+    return requests.get(url, proxies=myproxies, **kwargs)
 
 
 def post(url, **kwargs):
     global proxies
     myproxies = proxies if proxies is not None and furl(url).host not in ["127.0.0.1", "localhost"] and "192.168" not in str(url) else None
-    return requests.post(url, proxies=myproxies, verify=False, **kwargs)
+    return requests.post(url, proxies=myproxies, **kwargs)