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Who knew that something as innocent as java.net.URL.equals and hashCode would make blocking Internet connections?

The javadoc of URL.equals says: “Since hosts comparison requires name resolution, this operation is a blocking operation.”, but who reads the documentation of equals?  There is a general contract around equals.  Joshua Bloch writes in Effective Java: “Don’t write an equals that relies on unreliable resources” (Chapter 3, page 34). Hey Sun, as far as I know, the Internet is not reliable

Eclipse and Java Blog by Michael Scharf: java.net.URL.equals and hashCode make (blocking) Internet connections….

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