Game crashes with Null Pointer Exception errors when I hopped on a tamed horse in SMP. Worked perfectly fine in single player, though.

Client> 2013-04-18 14:09:13 [CLIENT] [INFO] Connecting to 67.183.255.113, 25565
Client> java.lang.NullPointerException
Client> at ek.n(SourceFile:174)
Client> at ck.a(SourceFile:237)
Client> at ck.a(SourceFile:225)
Client> at ck.h(SourceFile:175)
Client> at ck.d(SourceFile:16)
Client> at cm.run(SourceFile:115)
Client> java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_6_has_been_released.flag
Client> at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1434)
Client> at kq.a(SourceFile:237)
Client> at bhq.run(SourceFile:114)
Client> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)