--- client/src/main/java/org/apache/xmlrpc/client/XmlRpcLiteHttpTransport.java	(revision 436669)
+++ client/src/main/java/org/apache/xmlrpc/client/XmlRpcLiteHttpTransport.java	(working copy)
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
 	
 			for (int tries = 0;  ;  tries++) {
 				try {
-					socket = newSocket();
+					socket = newSocket(hostname, port);
 					output = new BufferedOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream()){
 						/** Closing the output stream would close the whole socket, which we don't want,
 						 * because the don't want until the request is processed completely.
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-    protected Socket newSocket() throws UnknownHostException, IOException {
+    protected Socket newSocket(String hostname, int port) throws UnknownHostException, IOException {
         return new Socket(hostname, port);
     }