The RC format allows for PFN's to be optionally enclosed in double quotes. however it appears that the rc-client does not strip out the enclosing quotes.

05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.882 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 1: 2mass-atlas-990502s-h1420186.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s142/image/hi1420186.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.882 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 2: 2mass-atlas-990502s-h1430092.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s143/image/hi1430092.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.883 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 3: 2-corrected.tbl "file:///lfs1/software/bamboo/data/xml-data/build-dir/PEGASUS-WT48-T31A/test/core/031-montage-jdbcrc-sqlite/montage-workflow-v2/data/2-corrected.tbl" pool="local"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.883 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 4: 2mass-atlas-990502s-j1350092.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s135/image/ji1350092.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.883 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 5: 3-corrected.tbl "file:///lfs1/software/bamboo/data/xml-data/build-dir/PEGASUS-WT48-T31A/test/core/031-montage-jdbcrc-sqlite/montage-workflow-v2/data/3-corrected.tbl" pool="local"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.883 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 6: 2mass-atlas-990502s-h1350080.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s135/image/hi1350080.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.884 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 7: 3-raw.tbl "file:///lfs1/software/bamboo/data/xml-data/build-dir/PEGASUS-WT48-T31A/test/core/031-montage-jdbcrc-sqlite/montage-workflow-v2/data/3-raw.tbl" pool="local"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.884 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 8: 2mass-atlas-990502s-h1420198.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s142/image/hi1420198.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.884 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 9: 2mass-atlas-990502s-k1430092.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s143/image/ki1430092.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.885 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 10: 2mass-atlas-990502s-h1430080.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s143/image/hi1430080.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.885 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 11: 2mass-atlas-990502s-h1350092.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s135/image/hi1350092.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.885 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 12: 2mass-atlas-990502s-k1420186.fits "http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/data/twomass/full/full/990502s/s142/image/ki1420186.fits.gz" pool="ipac"
05-Mar-2018 13:33:39 2018-03-05 13:33:39.886 DEBUG [RCClient] LINE 13: 1-projected.tbl "file:///lfs1/software/bamboo/data/xml-data/build-dir/PEGASUS-WT48-T31A/test/core/031-montage-jdbcrc-sqlite/montage-workflow-v2/data/1-projected.tbl" pool="local"

Because of which the planner fails with being unable to parse the retrieved URL's

"file:///lfs1/software/bamboo/data/xml-data/build-dir/PEGASUS-WT48-T31A/test/core/031-montage-jdbcrc-sqlite/montage-workflow-v2/data at edu.isi.pegasus.common.util.PegasusURL.parse(PegasusURL.java:136)