diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/web/action/UploadAction.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/web/action/UploadAction.java
index 8ff18b12d..62c4c71ca 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/web/action/UploadAction.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/web/action/UploadAction.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import org.apache.archiva.checksum.ChecksummedFile;
 import org.apache.archiva.scheduler.ArchivaTaskScheduler;
 import org.apache.archiva.scheduler.repository.RepositoryTask;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.maven.archiva.common.utils.VersionComparator;
 import org.apache.maven.archiva.common.utils.VersionUtil;
@@ -457,12 +458,7 @@ public class UploadAction
 
         try
         {
-            int i;
-            while ( ( i = input.read() ) != -1 )
-            {
-                out.write( i );
-            }
-            out.flush();
+            IOUtils.copy( input, out );
         }
         finally
         {