diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/HttpProxy/Parse.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/HttpProxy/Parse.pm
index 37ffdd0f6..79cebea3d 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/HttpProxy/Parse.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/HttpProxy/Parse.pm
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ use strict;
 use HTML::Parser;
 use HTML::Entities;
 use URI::URL;
-use vars qw(@ISA);
-@ISA = qw(HTML::Parser);
+use parent qw(HTML::Parser);
 
 =head1 NAME