Yes, this seems reasonable to me too. There seem to be fewer and fewer applications that use ftp... ----- Original Message ----- From: chris.hega...@oracle.com To: alan.bate...@oracle.com Cc: net-dev@openjdk.java.net Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:48:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: URL guarantees that the ftp protocol handler is present, worth re-considering this?
Seems reasonable. -Chris On 15 Oct 2012, at 17:14, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > java.net.URL guarantees that 5 protocol handlers are present: http, https, > ftp, file and jar. > > ftp a legacy protocol and I'm wondering whether it's time to consider > removing it from the list. I'm not suggesting we don't continue to include > it, rather just removing the guarantee that it is always present. The > motivation for bringing this up is modules and compact profiles where it > might be desirable to not include the ftp protocol handler for footprint > reasons. > > -Alan
