On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> I recall digging into this a long time ago and concluded that it's was > an interpretation of RFC 1738 section 3.10. I can't imagine anything > relying on this in 2025 so disabling it, and introducing a system > property to allow, seems reasonable. > Thanks for providing context, Alan. I agree it may make more sense to skip the two-phase disablement of this feature. The number of people who rely on this AND follow release notes in recent JDKs is probably very low. I have filed https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8353440 to track disabling this feature by default. Eirik.