diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/trac/TracDownloader.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/trac/TracDownloader.java
index c420c0f..6eee614 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/trac/TracDownloader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/trac/TracDownloader.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException;
 import org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClient;
 import org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClientConfigImpl;
+import org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcCommonsTransportFactory;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
 
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
@@ -112,6 +113,8 @@
 
         client.setConfig( config );
 
+        client.setTransportFactory( new XmlRpcCommonsTransportFactory( client ) );
+
         // Fetch issues
         String qstr = "";