RFR: 8326578: Clean up networking properties documentation [v3]

[Michael McMahon]

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:07:04 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelinski at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this patch that removes the specification of system properties that are no longer used:
>> - `http.auth.digest.cnonceRepeat` system property was removed in JDK 5
>> - `java.net.socks.username` and `java.net.socks.password` were never available as system properties; they were available as user preferences. The support for these preferences was removed in JDK 7.
>> 
>> Additionally I updated the SOCKS proxy specification to match the user guide, and added the information that SOCKS proxies are only used by java.net TCP connections; the NIO SocketChannel does not support SOCKS proxies.
>
> Daniel Jeliński has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Clarify default ProxySelector

src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/doc-files/net-properties.html line 155:

> 153: 			'*' can be used for pattern matching. For example,
> 154: 			{@code -DsocksNonProxyHosts="*.foo.com|localhost"}
> 155: 			will indicate that every host in the foo.com domain and the

Suggestion:

			will indicate that every host in the foo.com domain (excluding sub-domains) and the

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17988#discussion_r1507724278