Oh I remember this one from one of my project I was doing that might do the trick. you basically need to pass ? at the end of the url string if the OSVersion is greater then 5.0

Code:
//// url variable contains the url string address ie http://www.bbc.co.uk

// If in win2k and http, the cmd must end with a "?"!
float OSVersion = Float.parseFloat(System.getProperty("os.version"));
if
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