diff --git a/themoviedbapi/pom.xml b/themoviedbapi/pom.xml
index fd0b362ae..2e20e6364 100644
--- a/themoviedbapi/pom.xml
+++ b/themoviedbapi/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	<groupId>com.moviejukebox</groupId>
 	<artifactId>themoviedbapi</artifactId>
 	<version>1.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
-	<name>The MovieDB API</name>
+	<name>API-The MovieDB</name>
 
 	<issueManagement>
 		<system>Google Code</system>
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 	 <dependency>
 	  <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
 	  <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
-	  <version>1.4</version>
+	  <version>1.5</version>
 	 </dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
diff --git a/themoviedbapi/src/main/java/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/WebBrowser.java b/themoviedbapi/src/main/java/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/WebBrowser.java
index 53c66d1c8..f61c959aa 100644
--- a/themoviedbapi/src/main/java/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/WebBrowser.java
+++ b/themoviedbapi/src/main/java/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/WebBrowser.java
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ package com.moviejukebox.themoviedb.tools;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
@@ -293,7 +292,7 @@ public final class WebBrowser {
     public static void setProxyPassword(String proxyPassword) {
         WebBrowser.proxyPassword = proxyPassword;
 
-        if (proxyUsername != null && !proxyPassword.isEmpty()) {
+        if (proxyUsername != null) {
             proxyEncodedPassword = proxyUsername + ":" + proxyPassword;
             proxyEncodedPassword = "Basic " + new String(Base64.encodeBase64((proxyUsername + ":" + proxyPassword).getBytes()));
         }