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 _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] Does Java have built-in Gopher support?