diff --git a/changelog.html b/changelog.html
index 591029fecb..c995c22d62 100644
--- a/changelog.html
+++ b/changelog.html
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Upcoming changes</a>
 <!-- Record your changes in the trunk here. -->
 <div id="trunk" style="display:none"><!--=TRUNK-BEGIN=-->
 <ul class=image>
+  <li class=bug>
+    Tools download does not respect proxy settings
+    (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-5271">issue 5271</a>)
   <li class=bug>
     Recover from a corrupted JSON update data file automatically
     (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-7034">issue 7034</a>)
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/hudson/FilePath.java b/core/src/main/java/hudson/FilePath.java
index 0ba9c3bcdb..54ed063e8a 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/hudson/FilePath.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/hudson/FilePath.java
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ public final class FilePath implements Serializable {
                 listener.getLogger().println(message);
 
             // for HTTP downloads, enable automatic retry for added resilience
-            InputStream in = archive.getProtocol().equals("http") ? ProxyConfiguration.getInputStream(archive) : con.getInputStream();
+            InputStream in = archive.getProtocol().startsWith("http") ? ProxyConfiguration.getInputStream(archive) : con.getInputStream();
             CountingInputStream cis = new CountingInputStream(in);
             try {
                 if(archive.toExternalForm().endsWith(".zip"))