Commons VFS and Java.net.URL - Adding support for “sftp://” protocol

Question

We\'re trying to use Apache Commons VFS to access something over SFTP. It claims to support SFTP, however we\'re getting a MalformedURLException when it starts. Digging arou

Answer 1

Depending on how your code is structured, you could remove the s before you give the string to the URL parsing method, set a flag, and if it validates, check that flag and put it back if it's set. It's ugly, but it'll provide a workaround.