Observations: URLClassPath and HTTP request

[Alan Bateman]

On 24/02/2026 14:51, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 4:17 PM Eirik Bjørsnøs <eirbjo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     0: Do nothing, HTTP URLs is not used much in URLClassPath
>
>
> Okay, given that HTTP redirects seem like a corner-case of a 
> corner-case in URLClassLoader,  it seems the obvious choice is do not 
> do any changes to long-standing behavior here.
>
I agree. Remote class loading was very interesting in a world of 
distributed objects, security managers and sandboxing. I don't think we 
have data to know how widely used URLClassLoader is with http/https in 
modern applications and deployments. If something compelling comes up 
that has performance issues then they could be looked at then.

-Alan
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