From: "Gopher-Project" <gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org>
       Date: Thu Jan  7 22:36:45 2016
       Subject: Re: [gopher] Does Java have built-in Gopher support?
       
       Hi,
       
       > Hi all. On Oracle website in docs I've seen that Java has a handler for
       > Gopher protocol, but a simple test fails with
       > java.net.MalformedURLException: unkown protocol: gopher. I'm running
       > Oracle JDK 8.
       
       Nice find! Was not aware of this. Personally I don't use sun.XXX
       packages, as they are obviously only available in Oracle
       implementations, so I've implemented my own protocol handling for my
       client.
       
       Perhaps this is of help, I've not tried it yet:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865541
       
       To quote above's link: "Oracle Java SE updates 7u9 and 6u37 disable
       Gopher protocol support by default in the java.net package.  Update also
       introduces a new property "jdk.net.registerGopherProtocol" which can be
       set to true to re-enable Gopher support."
       
       Although certainly interesting and fun for experiments, I don't really
       think this is worth the hassle. Wouldn't be too surprised if they were
       to deprecate this in future JDKs.
       
       Regards,
       Vincent
       
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