diff --git a/libs/entitlement/bridge/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/bridge/EntitlementChecker.java b/libs/entitlement/bridge/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/bridge/EntitlementChecker.java
index 5b4727041d782..3c5ebecb1d9e7 100644
--- a/libs/entitlement/bridge/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/bridge/EntitlementChecker.java
+++ b/libs/entitlement/bridge/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/bridge/EntitlementChecker.java
@@ -510,10 +510,7 @@ public interface EntitlementChecker {
         Class<?>[] classes
     );
 
-    void check$sun_net_www_protocol_https_AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection$connect(
-        Class<?> callerClass,
-        javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection that
-    );
+    void check$sun_net_www_protocol_https_AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection$connect(Class<?> callerClass, java.net.HttpURLConnection that);
 
     void check$sun_net_www_protocol_mailto_MailToURLConnection$connect(Class<?> callerClass, java.net.URLConnection that);
 
diff --git a/libs/entitlement/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/runtime/api/ElasticsearchEntitlementChecker.java b/libs/entitlement/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/runtime/api/ElasticsearchEntitlementChecker.java
index 3c6212f93135f..096e4a0529df5 100644
--- a/libs/entitlement/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/runtime/api/ElasticsearchEntitlementChecker.java
+++ b/libs/entitlement/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/entitlement/runtime/api/ElasticsearchEntitlementChecker.java
@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ private static boolean isFileUrlConnection(java.net.URLConnection urlConnection)
     @Override
     public void check$sun_net_www_protocol_https_AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection$connect(
         Class<?> callerClass,
-        javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection that
+        java.net.HttpURLConnection that
     ) {
         policyManager.checkOutboundNetworkAccess(callerClass);
     }