On 22/02/2026 14:29, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:
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1) getResourceAsStream calls HEAD before calling GET. I don't quite
understand why this is necessary, it seems it would be better to do
the GET unconditionally to save a request.
I don't know if URLClassLoader is used much these days for remote class
loading but it may be that getResourceAsStream is using getResource to
get a URL to the resource, then it opens a connection. Locating the
resource on a HTTP server should only require a HEAD. To access the
resources would need GET of course.
-Alan
