Alright, I may have found a potential fix. Right now, I'm trying to roll back to an older version of the DownloadUtils.java.
Example
The example is a link that should pull up the changes to the DownloadUtils.java. I'm not sure if it will load the right page in your browsers though. Anyways, there was a fairly large change to this section, and from the looks of it, the newest change was the only one that opened the possibility of downloading "null". I'm going to try to revert to the older version, and see if it will run properly.
Just trying to post a little status update, sorry if it's not the "OMG GUIZE I FIXED IT" response you were looking for.