Getting a reference to Java's default http(s) URLStreamHandler

Question

I have a library that I need to use in one of my projects, which unfortunately registers its own URLStreamHandler to handle http-URLs. Is there a w

Answer 1

You can register your own URLStreamHandlerFactory wirh URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(new URLStreamHandlerFactory());

public class URLStreamHandlerFactory implements java.net.URLStreamHandlerFactory {
    public URLStreamHandlerFactory() {}

    public URLStreamHandler createURLStreamHandler(String protocol) {
        if(protocol.equals("http")) {
            return new sun.net.www.protocol.http.Handler();
        } else if(protocol.equals("https")) {
            return new sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

so you can use standard handler

EDIT: Found this code