RE: [cp-patches] RFC: prevent URL degeneration

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Jeroen,

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:38 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> I also disagree with it on principle grounds. We should match the JDK in
> cases like this, not try to do the "right thing". It's very easy to
> break applications that depend on the JDK URL implementation and it is
> not reasonable to expect them to be fixed if the JDK is never going to
> get fixed (which I can assure you, it isn't).

I agree that we should be careful not to break applications. But the
fact is that it is a real bug where code expects new URL("user supplied
string representation").toString() to provide a valid URL that
represents the URL the user wanted which can again be used to create a
similar URL (like in the original code Robert found). Maybe it is too
hard to provide a correct fix, but we can at least try to do better.

Cheers,

Mark

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