HttpServer should implement AutoCloseable?

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/10/2025 23:09, David Alayachew wrote:
> Hello @core-libs-dev <mailto:core-libs-dev at openjdk.org>,
>
> Would it be ok if we made HttpServer from the jdk.httpserver module 
> implement AutoCloseable? Having this would prevent people from 
> forgetting to close the server after use.
>
> The close() implementation could call stop(int delay) with a 
> reasonable default. This implementation should be a default one, so 
> that existing child classes that also implemented AutoCloseable lose 
> no functionality.
>
The net-dev mailing list is where networking and HTTP issues are usually 
discussed. HttpExchange was retrofitted to implement AutoCloseable in 
JDK 14 and there may have been discussed (can't remember) about 
HttpServer at the time.

-Alan
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