On 16/10/2012 13:24, Tom Hawtin wrote:
On 15/10/2012 18:20, Mike Duigou wrote:
We should also nuke gopher and netdoc (in sun.net.www.protocol package)
I am not sure if mailto should continue as there are better solutions.
I think it's worth pointing out that in practice URL is not used just
to open a connection. It's also used as a strong type to pass URL text
around (poor choice of class, but there it is). For instance, it's
used in deployment to pass to the browser. With the URL design, you
need a handler for the protocol in order to construct it. So no
passing a javascript: URL to showDocument (unless a third-party has
registered a handler, or a handler is specified in the constructor
within a privileged context).
Yes, that's right, there is still a lot of code that uses URL instead of
URI. In any case, the proposal here is just to change the specification
to remove "ftp" from the list of protocol handlers that are required to
be present. The ftp protocol handler will of course still be there so
existing code will still work.
-Alan
