[blb]

There must be more going on against the args given to main; the following

public class jtest
{
   public static void main( String args[] )
   {
      System.out.println( "args[ 0 ] is " + args[ 0 ] );

      System.exit(0);
   }
}

when run

$ java jtest http://mysite.com/1.1.1/myothercode.jar

prints what is expected

args[ 0 ] is http://mysite.com/1.1.1/myothercode.jar