diff --git a/jdk/test/sun/net/www/http/KeepAliveCache/KeepAliveProperty.java b/jdk/test/sun/net/www/http/KeepAliveCache/KeepAliveProperty.java
index afea35e48b7..e0ef3db957b 100644
--- a/jdk/test/sun/net/www/http/KeepAliveCache/KeepAliveProperty.java
+++ b/jdk/test/sun/net/www/http/KeepAliveCache/KeepAliveProperty.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 public class KeepAliveProperty {
 
     static volatile boolean pass = false;
+    static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection");
 
     static class Server extends Thread {
         final ServerSocket server;
@@ -138,7 +139,6 @@ static String fetch(URL url) throws Exception {
 
     public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
         // exercise the logging code
-        Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection");
         logger.setLevel(Level.FINEST);
         ConsoleHandler h = new ConsoleHandler();
         h.setLevel(Level.FINEST);
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
             if (!expectClose)
                 throw e;
         }
+        s.join();
 
         if (!pass)
             throw new RuntimeException("Failed in server");