diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/AbstractFileResolvingResource.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/AbstractFileResolvingResource.java
index a09934359b..e1f796847a 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/AbstractFileResolvingResource.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/AbstractFileResolvingResource.java
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractFileResolvingResource extends AbstractResource {
 			else {
 				// Try a URL connection content-length header...
 				URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
-				con.setUseCaches(false);
+				ResourceUtils.useCachesIfNecessary(con);
 				HttpURLConnection httpCon =
 						(con instanceof HttpURLConnection ? (HttpURLConnection) con : null);
 				if (httpCon != null) {
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractFileResolvingResource extends AbstractResource {
 		else {
 			// Try a URL connection content-length header...
 			URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
-			con.setUseCaches(false);
+			ResourceUtils.useCachesIfNecessary(con);
 			if (con instanceof HttpURLConnection) {
 				((HttpURLConnection) con).setRequestMethod("HEAD");
 			}
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractFileResolvingResource extends AbstractResource {
 		else {
 			// Try a URL connection last-modified header...
 			URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
-			con.setUseCaches(false);
+			ResourceUtils.useCachesIfNecessary(con);
 			if (con instanceof HttpURLConnection) {
 				((HttpURLConnection) con).setRequestMethod("HEAD");
 			}
diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/UrlResource.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/UrlResource.java
index a68e919c66..2f9f162d78 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/UrlResource.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/UrlResource.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2009 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
 
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ public class UrlResource extends AbstractFileResolvingResource {
 	 */
 	public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
 		URLConnection con = this.url.openConnection();
-		con.setUseCaches(false);
+		ResourceUtils.useCachesIfNecessary(con);
 		try {
 			return con.getInputStream();
 		}
diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java
index 92716e491a..f9a3645a3e 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ public class PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver implements ResourcePatternResol
 		if (con instanceof JarURLConnection) {
 			// Should usually be the case for traditional JAR files.
 			JarURLConnection jarCon = (JarURLConnection) con;
-			jarCon.setUseCaches(jarCon.getClass().getName().startsWith("JNLP"));
+			ResourceUtils.useCachesIfNecessary(jarCon);
 			jarFile = jarCon.getJarFile();
 			jarFileUrl = jarCon.getJarFileURL().toExternalForm();
 			JarEntry jarEntry = jarCon.getJarEntry();
diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PropertiesLoaderUtils.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PropertiesLoaderUtils.java
index f52c0f04f7..20b74d017a 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PropertiesLoaderUtils.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PropertiesLoaderUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2006 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.util.Properties;
 import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
+import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;
 
 /**
  * Convenient utility methods for loading of <code>java.util.Properties</code>,
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ public abstract class PropertiesLoaderUtils {
 			InputStream is = null;
 			try {
 				URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
-				con.setUseCaches(false);
+				ResourceUtils.useCachesIfNecessary(con);
 				is = con.getInputStream();
 				properties.load(is);
 			}
diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java
index e309719029..b9dc3bd855 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLConnection;
 
 /**
  * Utility methods for resolving resource locations to files in the
@@ -328,4 +329,14 @@ public abstract class ResourceUtils {
 		return new URI(StringUtils.replace(location, " ", "%20"));
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Set the {@link URLConnection#setUseCaches "useCaches"} flag on the
+	 * given connection, preferring <code>false</code> but leaving the
+	 * flag at <code>true</code> for JNLP based resources.
+	 * @param con the URLConnection to set the flag on
+	 */
+	public static void useCachesIfNecessary(URLConnection con) {
+		con.setUseCaches(con.getClass().getName().startsWith("JNLP"));
+	}
+
 }