From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:45:23 PST

I answered my own question a while ago and forgot to update this thread.

It turns out that the problem was with the GlassFish class loader, or more specifically with the URLConnection implementation it provides.

I described the details in this issue

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5222

a while ago.
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