diff --git a/src/java/org/lwjgl/util/applet/AppletLoader.java b/src/java/org/lwjgl/util/applet/AppletLoader.java
index 2fa12fae..a8d3a6cc 100644
--- a/src/java/org/lwjgl/util/applet/AppletLoader.java
+++ b/src/java/org/lwjgl/util/applet/AppletLoader.java
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.net.SocketPermission;
 import java.net.URL;
@@ -779,11 +780,15 @@ public class AppletLoader extends Applet implements Runnable, AppletStub {
 		state = STATE_DOWNLOADING;
 
 		URLConnection urlconnection;
+		
+		// disable the java caching
+		Field field = URLConnection.class.getDeclaredField("defaultUseCaches");
+		field.setAccessible(true);
+		field.setBoolean(URLConnection.class, false);
 
 		// calculate total size of jars to download
 		for (int i = 0; i < urlList.length; i++) {
 			urlconnection = urlList[i].openConnection();
-			urlconnection.setDefaultUseCaches(false);
 			totalSizeDownload += urlconnection.getContentLength();
 		}