diff --git a/lucene/src/site/changes/changes2html.pl b/lucene/src/site/changes/changes2html.pl
index d07a03d62b4..f95d63e06e0 100755
--- a/lucene/src/site/changes/changes2html.pl
+++ b/lucene/src/site/changes/changes2html.pl
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use LWP::Simple;
 
 my $project_info_url = 'https://issues.apache.org/jira/rest/api/2.0.alpha1/project/LUCENE';
 my $jira_url_prefix = 'http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/';
@@ -674,7 +673,8 @@ sub setup_release_dates {
            '2.4.0' => '2008-10-06',     '2.4.1' => '2009-03-09',
            '2.9.0' => '2009-09-23',     '2.9.1' => '2009-11-06',
            '3.0.0' => '2009-11-25');
-  my $project_info_json = get($project_info_url) || die "Unable to download $project_info_url";
+
+  my $project_info_json = `wget --no-check-certificate -O - $project_info_url`; 
   my $project_info = json2perl($project_info_json);
   for my $version (@{$project_info->{versions}}) {
     if ($version->{releaseDate}) {