Now that the bug is (finally) fixed upstream in TRUNK, is there any chance of appying the patch to the current version ? http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=813178 You might want to apply the fix in r924455 too : http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=924455 Hand-patching the file becomes very tedious after a while... Best regards, Roel