--- a/jaxp/src/java.xml/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xerces/internal/impl/XMLEntityManager.java	Wed Jul 05 20:39:43 2017 +0200
+++ b/jaxp/src/java.xml/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xerces/internal/impl/XMLEntityManager.java	Tue Jun 30 12:04:27 2015 +0200
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@
                         // set preference for redirection
                         followRedirects = httpInputSource.getFollowHTTPRedirects();
                         if (!followRedirects) {
-                            setInstanceFollowRedirects(urlConnection, followRedirects);
+                            urlConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(followRedirects);
                         }
                     }
 
@@ -2193,20 +2193,6 @@
     } // expandSystemIdStrictOn(String,String):String
 
     /**
-     * Attempt to set whether redirects will be followed for an <code>HttpURLConnection</code>.
-     * This may fail on earlier JDKs which do not support setting this preference.
-     */
-    public static void setInstanceFollowRedirects(HttpURLConnection urlCon, boolean followRedirects) {
-        try {
-            Method method = HttpURLConnection.class.getMethod("setInstanceFollowRedirects", new Class[] {Boolean.TYPE});
-            method.invoke(urlCon, new Object[] {followRedirects ? Boolean.TRUE : Boolean.FALSE});
-        }
-        // setInstanceFollowRedirects doesn't exist.
-        catch (Exception exc) {}
-    }
-
-
-    /**
      * Helper method for expandSystemId(String,String,boolean):String
      */
     private static String expandSystemIdStrictOff(String systemId, String baseSystemId)