I'm pretty sure the specification of this class predates name-based virtual hosting. After all, that only appeared in 1997, or perhaps late 1996, and it took a couple of years to be standardized. The URL class existed in Java in 1995 :)
(Edit: And really, virtual hosts are an extremely weird HTTP feature. What other internet protocol cares about what domain name you used to establish a connection?)
> (Edit: And really, virtual hosts are an extremely weird HTTP feature. What other internet protocol cares about what domain name you used to establish a connection?)
kerberos? (btw. this is older than 1995) or smtp (little bit different than the http version, tough)
