URL guarantees that the ftp protocol handler is present, worth re-considering this?

[John Zavgren]

Yes, this seems reasonable to me too. There seem to be fewer and fewer applications that use ftp...
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From: chris.hegarty at oracle.com
To: Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Cc: net-dev at openjdk.java.net
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:48:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: URL guarantees that the ftp protocol handler is present, worth re-considering this?

Seems reasonable. 

-Chris

On 15 Oct 2012, at 17:14, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> java.net.URL guarantees that 5 protocol handlers are present: http, https, ftp, file and jar.
> 
> ftp a legacy protocol and I'm wondering whether it's time to consider removing it from the list. I'm not suggesting we don't continue to include it, rather just removing the guarantee that it is always present. The motivation for bringing this up is modules and compact profiles where it might be desirable to not include the ftp protocol handler for footprint reasons.
> 
> -Alan