How to compare two URLs in java?

Question

Here\'s a simple problem - given two urls, is there some built-in method, or an Apache library that decides whether they are (logically) equal?

For example, these tw

Answer 1

sameFile

public boolean sameFile(URL other)Compares two URLs,

excluding the fragment component. Returns true if this URL and the other argument are equal without taking the fragment component into consideration.

Parameters: other - the URL to compare against. Returns: true if they reference the same remote object; false otherwise.

also please go through this link

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#sameFile(java.net.URL)

As iam unable to add comment , browser throwing Javascript error. so iam adding my comment here. regret for inconvience.

//this what i suggeted

>URL url1 = new URL("http://stackoverflow.com/foo");

>URL url2 = new URL("http://stackoverflow.com/foo/");

>System.out.println(url1.sameFile(url2));

// this is suggested by Joachim Sauer 
>URI uri = new URI("http://stackoverflow.com/foo/");
>System.out.println(uri.equals("http://stackoverflow.com/foo"));

// Both are giving same result

so Joachim Sauer check once.