diff --git a/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist b/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist
index c6f81e821..e8788dc2f 100644
--- a/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist
+++ b/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 			<string>$JAVAROOT/lib/bzip2.jar</string>
 			<string>$JAVAROOT/lib/commons-codec-1.4.jar</string>
 			<string>$JAVAROOT/lib/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar</string>
+			<string>$JAVAROOT/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar</string>
 			<string>$JAVAROOT/lib/commons-io-2.0.1.jar</string>
 			<string>$JAVAROOT/lib/commons-jxpath-1.3.jar</string>
 			<string>$JAVAROOT/lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar</string>
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 90d41572e..4fac26818 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/bzip2.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-codec-1.4.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar" />
+    	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-io-2.0.1.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-jxpath-1.3.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar" />
diff --git a/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar b/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c59774ae
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar differ
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/services/federated/solr/SolrSingleConnector.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/services/federated/solr/SolrSingleConnector.java
index c69df79f6..552f92e5c 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/services/federated/solr/SolrSingleConnector.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/services/federated/solr/SolrSingleConnector.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import net.yacy.kelondro.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrQuery;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.CommonsHttpSolrServer;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.ContentStreamUpdateRequest;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocumentList;
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ public class SolrSingleConnector {
             this.transmissionQueue[i] = new ArrayBlockingQueue<SolrInputDocument>(transmissionQueueSize);
         }
         try {
-            this.server = new SolrHTTPClient(this.solrurl);
+            this.server = new CommonsHttpSolrServer(this.solrurl);
         } catch (final MalformedURLException e) {
             throw new IOException("bad connector url: " + this.solrurl);
         }