/* Handler.java -- HTTP protocol handler for java.net Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package gnu.java.net.protocol.http; import java.io.IOException; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.net.URLStreamHandler; /** * This is the protocol handler for the HTTP protocol. It implements * the abstract openConnection() method from URLStreamHandler by returning * a new HttpURLConnection object (from this package). All other * methods are inherited * * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) * @author Warren Levy * @author Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> */ public class Handler extends URLStreamHandler { /** * A do nothing constructor */ public Handler() { } /** * This method returs a new HttpURLConnection for the specified URL * * @param url The URL to return a connection for * * @return The URLConnection * * @exception IOException If an error occurs */ protected URLConnection openConnection (URL url) throws IOException { return new Connection (url); } /** * Returns the default port for a URL parsed by this handler. */ protected int getDefaultPort() { return 80; } } // class Handler