Dragging webloc URLs

In the past, it was possible to drag .webloc files from Finder and drop them in various applications. The pasteboard flavor on the pasteboard holding the URL referenced by the .webloc was 'url', corresponding to (NS) pasteboard type "CorePasteboardFlavorType 0x75726C20". This can be very useful, because it allows you to drag URLs e.g. from Safari to another app in a 2-step process, because you can't always drag directly to the receiving app. 

However, in SL this does not work anymore, the 'url' flavor is not put on the pasteboard anymore by Finder.

So my question is whether anybody knows whether there's any replacement for this rather useful feature? Or is this a bug?

thanks,
Christiaan