diff --git a/web/web-itests/pom.xml b/web/web-itests/pom.xml
index b7cc39faa8..e6988c6d39 100644
--- a/web/web-itests/pom.xml
+++ b/web/web-itests/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         <org.apache.aries.util.version>1.2.0-SNAPSHOT</org.apache.aries.util.version>
         <org.apache.aries.web.urlhandler.version>1.0.1-SNAPSHOT</org.apache.aries.web.urlhandler.version>
         <org.apache.felix.configadmin.version>1.9.26</org.apache.felix.configadmin.version>
-        <org.eclipse.osgi.version>3.17.0</org.eclipse.osgi.version>
+        <org.eclipse.osgi.version>3.22.0</org.eclipse.osgi.version>
         <tinybundles.version>2.1.1</tinybundles.version>
         <url.version>2.5.3</url.version>
     </properties>
diff --git a/web/web-urlhandler/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/web/url/WAR_URLServiceHandler.java b/web/web-urlhandler/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/web/url/WAR_URLServiceHandler.java
index 05047da239..52c4e076cb 100644
--- a/web/web-urlhandler/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/web/url/WAR_URLServiceHandler.java
+++ b/web/web-urlhandler/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/web/url/WAR_URLServiceHandler.java
@@ -18,9 +18,12 @@
  */
 package org.apache.aries.web.url;
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
 import java.util.Dictionary;
 import java.util.Hashtable;
 import java.util.StringTokenizer;
@@ -69,8 +72,14 @@ public URLConnection openConnection(URL url) throws IOException
         firstProperty = false;
       }
     }
-        
-    return new WARConnection(new URL(url.getPath()), properties);
+      WARConnection warConnection = new WARConnection(new URL(url.getPath()), properties);
+      // in new version of org.eclipse.osgi > 3.17.0 we cannot return war connection
+      // since when its protocol is file then generated input stream is ignored
+      // and framework reads file again
+      // https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox/blob/e35221a86afd24ee21b7b9d02db298a90ace1bc0/bundles/org.eclipse.osgi/container/src/org/eclipse/osgi/storage/Storage.java#L1158-L1181
+      File webbundle = File.createTempFile("webbundle", ".wab");
+      Files.copy(warConnection.getInputStream(), webbundle.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+      return webbundle.getAbsoluteFile().toURI().toURL().openConnection();
   }
 
   @Override