Minor update, but still stuck. I can see that when org.restlet.ext.net.jar.HttpClientHelper is constructed, it's in the context of org.restlet.engine.Engine's construction.
It adds the necessary protocols (HTTP, HTTPS) to the List<Protocol> held by its ConnectorHelper superclass, and the HttpClientHelper instance gets added to the list of "helpers" stored by the Engine's registeredClients field. I see that my problem is arising because the ConnectorService stored in my Application's services member is the one put there by its constructor, which is a dummy one containing no protocols. So it seems like somewhere along the line, somebody needs to call Application.setConnectorService(). I might be getting closer, but I'm still not seeing how the list of protocols stored in the HttpClientHelper gets passed along to the Application's ConnectorService. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2891640
