Github user cestella commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/402
@justinleet It's a good point you make and a very good catch. I am using
URIs specifically because if Java doesn't know about the protocol scheme, then
it bails. I'd hate for someone to ingest URLs of a custom scheme or a scheme
that is more esoteric than is supported by Java and have it bail.
That being said, after further investigation, URLs are not a subset of
URIs. As per
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176264/what-is-the-difference-between-a-uri-a-url-and-a-urn/1984225#1984225:
> Not "all URLs are URIs". It depends on the interpretation of the RFC. For
example in Java the URI parser does not like [ or ] and that's because the spec
says "should not" and not "shall not".
I'll have to consider whether or not I want to revert back to URL's and
make a comment for further study/analysis or whether I want to try something
else here.
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