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MK wrote: | I have the following problem: | My Web application needs to handle Lotus Notes URLs which use the scheme | "notes". However, since Java does not know this protocol by default, it throws a | MalformedUrlException when I construct a java.net.URL from a notes:// URL-string. | | So, I read up on custom URL handlers and as far as I understand, you have to | code a custom URLStreamHandler class and a custom URLConnection class. You really only need a custom URLStreamHandler... if there's a URLConnection that you can re-use, you are welcome to do that. | Okay, no | big deal. However, there are three ways to register your new handler: | | 1) put it in the sun.net.www.protocol.yourprotocol package Don't do that. You probably can't do it anyway, since the JAR defining the package is likely to be sealed. | 2) put it in a custom package and declare that package to the JRE using the | java.protocol.handler.pkgs system property This is how I do it in my TestURLConnection package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuc). | 3) register a custom URLStreamHandlerFactory using URL.setUrlStreamHandlerFactory This might not work, since the javadoc says it may only be called once for a given JVM -- and Tomcat (or something else) might have don it before you get the chance to do so. | problem is, none of these approaches work in Tomcat 5.5. For 1), this simply | didn't have any effect for me. 2) neither, maybe Tomcat simply ignores that | property? How did you set the property? | 3) doesn't work because Tomcat already registers its own factory, and | for some reason I can't quite put my hands on you are not allowed to call that | method twice per JVM instance. Yeah, that's not surprising at all. | This issue is also discussed on Sun's Java issue tracker: | http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4648098 | | The ticket has been opened six years ago and still no fix! That is also not surprising. Bugs in Java seem to take forever to get fixed, if they ever get fixed. It's a shame, really. | Does Tomcat meanwhile have some workaround for this? I mean, I don't even need | an actual URL connection, I just want to pass custom URL strings, which should | be perfectly fine if they are valid URLs, no?! Do you have the opportunity to intercept these URL objects, or are they always handled somewhere that you can't inspect them. I'm wondering if you can convert a notes:// URL into, say, an http:// URL before attempting to call URL.openConnection. I don't know anything about notes://, so maybe it isn't even HTTP-compatible. I'm sure there's a way around this. Give us some more information and we'll see what we can do. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAke+9tYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCu+QCfZR8fi+RMARH22QPpcZDjl4/o gUUAoL3sKYTDL6jznTmFu3QdOMZLX73N =Moqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
