Hm, my mistake. I did not follow the referenced link. The article states "...last in this hierarchy is sun.net.www.http.HttpClient" which led me to assume you h

Hm, my mistake. I did not follow the referenced link. The article states "...last in this hierarchy is sun.net.www.http.HttpClient" which led me to assume you had to explicitly go mucking around with something access-restricted.