RFR: 8353440: Disable FTP fallback for non-local file URLs by default [v5]

[Eirik Bjørsnøs]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:04:30 GMT, Eirik Bjørsnøs <eirbjo at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/doc-files/net-properties.html line 174:
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>>> 172: <a id="FileHandler"></a>
>>> 173: <H2>File URL stream protocol handler properties</H2>
>>> 174: <P>The following properties are used to configure the handler for URLs with the {@code file://} scheme:</P>
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>> I wonder if it should say the `{@code file:}` scheme instead. Although I understand that the case that interests us here is "file://some.host/some/path". Don't change anything right now - let's see if we have other opinions.
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>> I wonder if it should say the `{@code file:}` scheme instead. 
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> This seems like an improvement to me. Not really a deliberate choice to include the slashes on my part, probably more for consistency with other schemes under Proxy. Files with any host component should be a rarity.
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>> Don't change anything right now - let's see if we have other opinions.
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> Sure, we can let this simmer a bit.

> I wonder if it should say the `{@code file:}` scheme instead. Although I understand that the case that interests us here is "file://some.host/some/path". Don't change anything right now - let's see if we have other opinions.

Nobody commented on this. Should we keep the slashes - or slash them?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24657#discussion_r2060717455