On Mar 25, 2005, at 17:59, Doug Cutting wrote:
1. Why should we replace it?
java.net.URL is connection oriented.
What is the problem with java.net.URL?
java.net.URI is meant to handle parsing.
Does it reject unknown protocols?
Yes. Another issue is that something as innocent looking as equals() can trigger a network connection.
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