RFR: 8353440: Disable FTP fallback for non-local file URLs by default

Wed Apr 23 15:48:47 UTC 2025

On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:37:20 GMT, Eirik Bjørsnøs <eirbjo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We have not really discussed a future removal of this feature in the context of this PR. This PR simply disables the feature by default.

Yes - sorry my bad. The disabling of this feature (and hopefully its removal in some future version of the JDK)

>If we want to remove it in the future, should we include text now to mention it may be removed in a future release? Or is that something to consider for a future release?

Good question. I believe disabling is a good first step, which will hopefully tell us whether anyone is actually using it.
We can decide later if/when we actually want to remove it.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24657#issuecomment-2824750049