java.net.URI and RFC 3986 compliance

[Peter Levart]

On 07/10/2014 02:50 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
> Are there parties on this list interested in updating java.net.URI to 
> RFC3986?
>
> Is there anyone here who has previously attempted this?  If so what 
> issues did you find with regard to backward compatibility?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter.
>

Hi Peter,

I think It's good that you started this discussion. Since you already 
have some experience with RFC3986 and possibly also know the differences 
to RFC 2396 (I have just started reading both RFCs, so I am in no way a 
relevant source of information in this area), please feel free to ignore 
my noob questions...

Would it be possible to add a method to URI, say URI.normalize3986() and 
leave existing logic of URI unchanged? What could and what couldn't be 
achieved by that?

Regards, Peter