diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 0ea4cbc79..5ff29a6a9 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -2558,10 +2558,9 @@ under the License.
         <attribute name="url"/>
         <attribute name="property"/>
         <sequential>
-        	<local name="entityProperty"/>
         	<delete file="build/loadFilesize.txt"/>
         	<record name="build/loadFilesize.txt" action="start" loglevel="verbose" append="false"/>
-        	<http entityProperty="entityProperty" url="@{url}" method="HEAD" expected="200" printrequestheaders="false" printresponseheaders="false"/>
+        	<http url="@{url}" method="HEAD" expected="200" printrequestheaders="false" printresponseheaders="false"/>
         	<record name="build/loadFilesize.txt" action="stop"/>
         	<local name="fileSize"/>
         	<loadfile property="fileSize" srcFile="build/loadFilesize.txt">
@@ -2577,7 +2576,9 @@ under the License.
     </macrodef>
 
 	<!-- TODO: currently this only saves a copy and paste snipplet to a file ...
-	     would be nice if it really changes status.xml and download.xml --> 
+	     would be nice if it really changes status.xml and download.xml
+	     Doesn't work with Java6 - the https urls can't be accessed via loadChecksum
+     --> 
 	<target name="update-download">
         <downloadfile src="https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/missing-link/ml-ant-http-1.1.3.zip" dest="${compile.lib}/ml-ant-http-1.1.3.zip"/>
         <unzip src="${compile.lib}/ml-ant-http-1.1.3.zip" dest="${compile.lib}">
@@ -2675,4 +2676,4 @@ under the License.
     </section>
 ]]></echo>
 	</target>
-</project>
+</project>
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