On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Eirik, > > The code in URLJarFile which does that check for "~" seems to have been > introduced for https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-4447921. It doesn't > tell why the "~" was necessary. > Similar to the Unix history of using "~" as a substitution for home directories [1], perhaps the "Home" button on the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal also inspired use of "~" to signify the "Home" host, a.k.a 'localhost' on some platform historically supported by the JDK? Currently, the JDK resolves both these URLs on unixes: file://localhost/etc/hosts file://~/etc/hosts while the latter is rejected by curl (MacOS) as a "Bad file:// URL". Any AIX or Solaris/SunOS historians here? Eirik. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Directories_and_URLs
