I've just committed a trivial fix which may help people who, like me, sit behind a firewall to get a clean build. HTTPSender used to parse nonProxyHosts as if it was a list of (possibly wild-carded) host names separated by vertical bars. However, the string may (should?) be wrapped in double quotes according to the description [1] of the http.nonProxyHosts property. The fix should be backwards compatible for people who haven't used double quotes.
Also, I can't make today's chat, so please accept my apologies. Glyn [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/net/properties.html