diff --git a/src/main/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseChecker.java b/src/main/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseChecker.java
index 6493fe4..bd660b8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseChecker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseChecker.java
@@ -94,14 +94,18 @@ protected Bom parseBom(Map<String, String> cycloneDxConfig, String bomDir) throw
 
   protected List<String> parseJson(String jsonFileUri, String jsonPath, File destFile)
       throws IOException {
-    File file;
-    if (isUrl(jsonFileUri)) {
-      file = destFile;
-      FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL(jsonFileUri), file, TIMEOUT_MILLIS, TIMEOUT_MILLIS);
-    } else {
-      file = new File(jsonFileUri);
+    try {
+      File file;
+      if (isUrl(jsonFileUri)) {
+        file = destFile;
+        FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL(jsonFileUri), file, TIMEOUT_MILLIS, TIMEOUT_MILLIS);
+      } else {
+        file = new File(jsonFileUri);
+      }
+      return JsonPath.read(file, jsonPath);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      throw new IOException(e);
     }
-    return JsonPath.read(file, jsonPath);
   }
 
   protected Set<String> lowercaseList(List<String> list) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseCheckerTest.java b/src/test/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseCheckerTest.java
index cc3fb70..53a8424 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseCheckerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/remis/cyclonedx/LicenseCheckerTest.java
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments.arguments;
 
 import java.io.File;
@@ -17,13 +16,14 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.CsvSource;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.MethodSource;
-import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;
 
 public class LicenseCheckerTest {
   private static final URL JSON_FILE_URL =
       LicenseCheckerTest.class.getResource("/complex-project/allowedLicenses.json");
   private static final String JSON_PATH = "$[?(@.License_Conflicts=='No')].License_SPDX";
+  private static final File TEMP_FILE = new File("target/licensechecker.json");
 
   private final LicenseChecker licenseChecker = new LicenseChecker();
 
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ void lowercaseAndRemoveWhitespacesFromList() {
   }
 
   @ParameterizedTest
-  @ValueSource(strings = {"", " ", "invalid-path"})
-  void parseJsonThrowsIOException(String path) {
+  //  @ValueSource(strings = {" ", "invalid-path", "http://abc.com"})
+  @CsvSource({"'',''", "' ',' '", "invalid-path,''", "http://abc.com,''", "' '," + JSON_PATH})
+  void parseJsonThrowsIOException(String jsonFileUri, String jsonPath) {
     // WHEN + THEN
-    Exception e = assertThrows(IOException.class, () -> licenseChecker.parseJson(path, null, null));
-    assertTrue(e.getMessage().startsWith(path));
+    assertThrows(IOException.class, () -> licenseChecker.parseJson(jsonFileUri, jsonPath, null));
   }
 
   @ParameterizedTest
@@ -58,12 +58,11 @@ void parseJson(String jsonFileUri, String jsonPath, File destFile, List<String>
 
   static Stream<Arguments> parseJson() {
     List<String> expected = Arrays.asList("Apache-2.0", "BSD-4-Clause");
-    File destFile = new File("target/licensechecker.json");
     return Stream.of(
         // json from local file
-        arguments(JSON_FILE_URL.getFile(), JSON_PATH, null, expected),
+        arguments(JSON_FILE_URL.getFile(), JSON_PATH, TEMP_FILE, expected),
         // json from URL
-        arguments(JSON_FILE_URL.toString(), JSON_PATH, destFile, expected));
+        arguments(JSON_FILE_URL.toString(), JSON_PATH, TEMP_FILE, expected));
   }
 
   @ParameterizedTest