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		romwell on Dec 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java's URL.equals() Performs DNS Resolution They know this is nonsense and that the spec is wrong. It's there for backwards compatibility, which is not nonsense. It keeps the old code running.

cryptonector on Dec 12, 2019 [–]

Sometimes you need to break backwards compatibility for semantics. This is one of those cases.

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