Class-Path (in jar file) semantics different between Java 11 and 13 (on Windows)?

[Scott Palmer]

/C:/blah... is “root relative”. The (old) spec says the URL must be
"relative to the code base".  What does "code base" mean when not referring
to Applets or RMI?

This seems like a bad idea (security hole) that worked by accident.

Scott

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:00 AM Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 20/11/2019 13:50, David Lloyd wrote:
> > :
> > OK, but this decision violates both the old and updated spec (and
> > makes it difficult to write code that works in both cases: in
> > situations that reject absolute URLs (javac) and in situations that
> > reject drive letters (this code)), so I would request that this be
> > revisited.
> >
> This cannot be rushed as it require detailed security analysis. Is there
> any reason why you need to encode absolute file paths as relative URLs?
> I assume the use-case discussed here will work if File::toURI or toURL
> is used to create the file URL as it will have the "file:" scheme.
>
> -Alan
>