Chris Burdess wrote:
It does have the same support, and more. It just does things slightly
differently. There isn't anything in the specification of
HttpURLConnection that states that it supports resources of arbitrary
length.
Nor is there anything in the specification that says that
HttpURLConnection should allow me to access
"http://www.microsoft.com";. But that doesn't mean that it would be
reasonable for a (supposedly) standard
implementation to forbid this. [I know this is a stupid example. I'm
simply trying to point our that your
stated reason is specious.]
For resources of ordinary length, the inetlib-based implementation can
significantly outperform Sun's implementation.
Define "ordinary".
Actually, the only argument that matters here is whether people develop
applications that rely on the Sun behaviour.
The answer is that they do. And for them, the current behaviour of
Classpath's HttpURLConnection would be broken
... if they tries to port to a Classpath-based VM.
-- Steve
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