diff --git a/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/pom.xml b/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/pom.xml
index 9e4608bd5226..14cad877ad8b 100644
--- a/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/pom.xml
+++ b/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/pom.xml
@@ -24,11 +24,6 @@
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-xml</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jetty-webapp</artifactId>
-      <version>${project.version}</version>
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/client/XmlBasedHttpClientProvider.java b/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/client/XmlBasedHttpClientProvider.java
index 44b21f01e33c..93e347c66c9e 100644
--- a/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/client/XmlBasedHttpClientProvider.java
+++ b/jetty-websocket/websocket-client/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/client/XmlBasedHttpClientProvider.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.common.scopes.WebSocketContainerScope;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 
@@ -42,25 +41,19 @@ public static HttpClient get(@SuppressWarnings("unused") WebSocketContainerScope
         if (resource == null)
             return null;
 
-        // Try to load a HttpClient from a jetty-websocket-httpclient.xml configuration file.
-        // If WebAppClassLoader run with server class access, otherwise run normally.
         try
         {
-            try
-            {
-                return WebAppClassLoader.runWithServerClassAccess(() -> newHttpClient(resource));
-            }
-            catch (NoClassDefFoundError | ClassNotFoundException e)
-            {
-                if (LOG.isDebugEnabled())
-                    LOG.debug("Could not use WebAppClassLoader to run with Server class access", e);
-                return newHttpClient(resource);
-            }
+            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(HttpClient.class.getClassLoader());
+            return newHttpClient(resource);
         }
         catch (Throwable t)
         {
             LOG.warn("Failure to load HttpClient from XML", t);
         }
+        finally
+        {
+            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(contextClassLoader);
+        }
 
         return null;
     }