path: root/libjava/java/net/URLConnection.java

/* URLConnection.java -- Abstract superclass for reading from URL's
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package java.net;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.security.Permission;
import java.security.AllPermission;
import java.text.ParsePosition;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import gnu.gcj.io.MimeTypes;

/**
 * Written using on-line Java Platform 1.2 API Specification, as well
 * as "The Java Class Libraries", 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, 1998).
 * Status:  One guessContentTypeFrom... methods not implemented.
 *    getContent method assumes content type from response; see comment there.
 */

/**
 * This class models a connection that retrieves the information pointed
 * to by a URL object.  This is typically a connection to a remote node
 * on the network, but could be a simple disk read.
 * <p>
 * A URLConnection object is normally created by calling the openConnection()
 * method of a URL object.  This method is somewhat misnamed because it does
 * not actually open the connection.  Instead, it return an unconnected
 * instance of this object.  The caller then has the opportunity to set
 * various connection options prior to calling the actual connect() method.
 * <p>
 * After the connection has been opened, there are a number of methods in
 * this class that access various attributes of the data, typically
 * represented by headers sent in advance of the actual data itself.
 * <p>
 * Also of note are the getInputStream and getContent() methods which allow
 * the caller to retrieve the actual data from the connection.  Note that
 * for some types of connections, writing is also allowed.  The setDoOutput()
 * method must be called prior to connecing in order to enable this, then
 * the getOutputStream method called after the connection in order to
 * obtain a stream to write the output to.
 * <p>
 * The getContent() method is of particular note.  This method returns an
 * Object that encapsulates the data returned.  There is no way do determine
 * the type of object that will be returned in advance.  This is determined
 * by the actual content handlers as described in the description of that
 * method.
 *
 * @author Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com>
 * @author Warren Levy <warrenl@cygnus.com>
 */
public abstract class URLConnection
{
  /**
   * This is an object that maps filenames to MIME types.  The interface
   * to do this is implemented by this class, so just create an empty
   * instance and store it here.
   */
  private static FileNameMap fileNameMap;
 
  /**
   * This is the ContentHandlerFactory set by the caller, if any
   */
  private static ContentHandlerFactory factory;
  
  /**
   * This is the default value that will be used to determine whether or
   * not user interaction should be allowed.
   */
  private static boolean defaultAllowUserInteraction = false;
  
  /**
   * This is the default flag indicating whether or not to use caches to
   * store the data returned from a server
   */
  private static boolean defaultUseCaches = true;

  /**
   * This variable determines whether or not interaction is allowed with
   * the user.  For example, to prompt for a username and password.
   */
  protected boolean allowUserInteraction;

  /**
   * Indicates whether or not a connection has been established to the
   * destination specified in the URL
   */
  protected boolean connected = false;
  
  /**
   * Indicates whether or not input can be read from this URL
   */
  protected boolean doInput = true;
  
  /**
   * Indicates whether or not output can be sent to this URL
   */
  protected boolean doOutput = false;
  
  /**
   * If this flag is set, the protocol is allowed to cache data whenever
   * it can (caching is not guaranteed). If it is not set, the protocol
   * must a get a fresh copy of the data.
   * <p>
   * This field is set by the setUseCaches method and returned by the
   * getUseCaches method.
   *
   * Its default value is that determined by the last invocation of
   * setDefaultUseCaches
   */
  protected boolean useCaches;

  /**
   * If this value is non-zero, then the connection will only attempt to
   * fetch the document pointed to by the URL if the document has been
   * modified more recently than the date set in this variable.  That date
   * should be specified as the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 GMT.
   */
  protected long ifModifiedSince = 0L;

  /**
   * This is the URL associated with this connection
   */
  protected URL url;

  private static ContentHandler contentHandler;
  private static Hashtable handlers = new Hashtable();
  private static Locale locale; 
  private static SimpleDateFormat dateFormat1, dateFormat2, dateFormat3;
  private static boolean dateformats_initialized = false;

  /**
   * Creates a URL connection to a given URL. A real connection is not made.
   * Use #connect to do this.
   *
   * @param url The Object to create the URL connection to
   *
   * @see URLConnection#connect()
   */
  protected URLConnection(URL url)
  {
    // Set up all our instance variables
    this.url = url;
    allowUserInteraction = defaultAllowUserInteraction;
    useCaches = defaultUseCaches;
  }

  /**
   * Establishes the actual connection to the URL associated with this
   * connection object
   */
  public abstract void connect() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Returns the URL object associated with this connection
   *
   * @return The URL for this connection.
   */
  public URL getURL()
  {
    return url;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the content-length header field or -1 if the value
   * is not known or not present.
   *
   * @return The content-length field
   */
  public int getContentLength()
  {
    return getHeaderFieldInt("content-length", -1);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the the content-type of the data pointed to by the URL.  This
   * method first tries looking for a content-type header.  If that is not
   * present, it attempts to use the file name to determine the content's
   * MIME type.  If that is unsuccessful, the method returns null.  The caller
   * may then still attempt to determine the MIME type by a call to
   * guessContentTypeFromStream()
   *
   * @return The content MIME type
   */
  public String getContentType()
  {
    return getHeaderField("content-type");
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the content-encoding field or null if it is not
   * known or not present.
   * 
   * @return The content-encoding field
   */
  public String getContentEncoding()
  {
    return getHeaderField("content-encoding");
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the expires header or 0 if not known or present.
   * If populated, the return value is number of seconds since midnight
   * on 1/1/1970 GMT.
   *
   * @return The expiration time.
   */
  public long getExpiration()
  {
    return getHeaderFieldDate("expires", 0L);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the date of the document pointed to by the URL as reported in
   * the date field of the header or 0 if the value is not present or not
   * known. If populated, the return value is number of seconds since
   * midnight on 1/1/1970 GMT.
   *
   * @return The document date
   */
  public long getDate()
  {
    return getHeaderFieldDate("date", 0L);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the last-modified header field or 0 if not known known
   * or not present.  If populated, the return value is the number of seconds
   * since midnight on 1/1/1970.
   *
   * @return The last modified time
   */
  public long getLastModified()
  {
    return getHeaderFieldDate("last-modified", 0L);
  }

  /**
   * Return a String representing the header value at the specified index.
   * This allows the caller to walk the list of header fields.  The analogous
   * getHeaderFieldKey(int) method allows access to the corresponding key
   * for this header field
   *
   * @param index The index into the header field list to retrieve the value for
   *
   * @return The header value or null if index is past the end of the headers
   */
  public String getHeaderField(int index)
  {
    // Subclasses for specific protocols override this.
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a String representing the value of the header field having
   * the named key.  Returns null if the header field does not exist.
   *
   * @param The key of the header field
   *
   * @return The value of the header field as a String
   */
  public String getHeaderField(String name)
  {
    // Subclasses for specific protocols override this.
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a map of all sent header fields
   * 
   * @since 1.4
   */
  public Map getHeaderFields()
  {
    // Subclasses for specific protocols override this.
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the named header field as an int.  If the field
   * is not present or cannot be parsed as an integer, the default value
   * will be returned.
   *
   * @param name The header field key to lookup
   * @param defaultValue The defaule value if the header field is not found
   * or can't be parsed.
   *
   * @return The value of the header field or the default value if the field
   * is missing or malformed
   */
  public int getHeaderFieldInt(String name, int defaultValue)
  {
    String str = getHeaderField(name);
    int result = defaultValue;
    
    try
      {
	if (str != null)
	  result = Integer.parseInt (str);
      }
    catch (NumberFormatException e) 
      { 
	; // Do nothing; defaultValue is the default.
      }
    
    return result;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the named header field as a date.  This date will
   * be the number of seconds since midnight 1/1/1970 GMT or the default
   * value if the field is not present or cannot be converted to a date.
   *
   * @param name The name of the header field
   * @param val The dafault date
   *
   * @return Returns the date value of the header filed or the default value
   * if the field is missing or malformed
   */
  public long getHeaderFieldDate(String name, long val)
  {
    if (! dateformats_initialized)
      initializeDateFormats();
    String str = getHeaderField(name);
    if (str != null)
      {
        Date date;
	if ((date = dateFormat1.parse(str, new ParsePosition(0))) != null)
	  val = date.getTime();
	else if ((date = dateFormat2.parse(str, new ParsePosition(0))) != null)
	  val = date.getTime();
	else if ((date = dateFormat3.parse(str, new ParsePosition(0))) != null)
	  val = date.getTime();
      }
    return val;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a String representing the header key at the specified index.
   * This allows the caller to walk the list of header fields.  The analogous
   * getHeaderField(int) method allows access to the corresponding value for
   * this tag.
   *
   * @param index The index into the header field list to retrieve the key for. 
   *
   * @return The header field key or null if index is past the end
   * of the headers.
   */
  public String getHeaderFieldKey(int index)
  {
    // Subclasses for specific protocols override this.
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * This method returns the content of the document pointed to by the URL
   * as an Object.  The type of object depends on the MIME type of the
   * object and particular content hander loaded.  Most text type content
   * handlers will return a subclass of InputStream.  Images usually return
   * a class that implements ImageProducer.  There is not guarantee what
   * type of object will be returned, however.
   * <p>
   * This class first determines the MIME type of the content, then creates
   * a ContentHandler object to process the input.  If the ContentHandlerFactory
   * is set, then that object is called to load a content handler, otherwise
   * a class called gnu.java.net.content.<content_type> is tried.
   * The default class will also be used if the content handler factory returns
   * a null content handler.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   * @exception UnknownServiceException If the protocol does not support the
   * content type
   */
  public Object getContent() throws IOException
  {
    // FIXME: Doc indicates that other criteria should be applied as
    // heuristics to determine the true content type, e.g. see 
    // guessContentTypeFromName() and guessContentTypeFromStream methods
    // as well as FileNameMap class & fileNameMap field & get/set methods.
    String cType = getContentType();
    contentHandler = setContentHandler(cType);
    if (contentHandler == null)
      return getInputStream();

    return contentHandler.getContent(this);
  }

  /**
   * Retrieves the content of this URLConnection
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   * @exception UnknownServiceException If the protocol does not support the
   * content type
   */
  public Object getContent(Class[] classes) throws IOException
  {
    // FIXME: implement this
    return getContent ();
  }

  /**
   * This method returns a <code>Permission</code> object representing the
   * permissions required to access this URL.  This method returns
   * <code>java.security.AllPermission</code> by default.  Subclasses should
   * override it to return a more specific permission.  For example, an
   * HTTP URL should return an instance of <code>SocketPermission</code>
   * for the appropriate host and port.
   * <p>
   * Note that because of items such as HTTP redirects, the permission
   * object returned might be different before and after connecting.
   *
   * @return A Permission object
   *
   * @exception IOException If the computation of the permission requires
   * network or file I/O and an exception occurs while computing it
   */
  public Permission getPermission() throws IOException
  {
    // Subclasses may override this.
    return new java.security.AllPermission();
  }

  /**
   * Returns an InputStream for this connection.  As this default
   * implementation returns null, subclasses should override this method
   *
   * @return An InputStream for this connection
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   * @exception UnknownServiceException If the protocol does not support input
   */
  public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException
  {
    // Subclasses for specific protocols override this.
    throw new UnknownServiceException("Protocol " + url.getProtocol() +
			" does not support input.");
  }

  /**
   * Returns an OutputStream for this connection.  As this default
   * implementation returns null, subclasses should override this method
   *
   * @return An OutputStream for this connection
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   * @exception UnknownServiceException If the protocol does not support output
   */
  public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException
  {
    // Subclasses for specific protocols override this.
    throw new UnknownServiceException("Protocol " + url.getProtocol() +
			" does not support output.");
  }

  /**
   * The methods prints the value of this object as a String by calling the
   * toString() method of its associated URL.  Overrides Object.toString()
   * 
   * @return A String representation of this object
   */
  public String toString()
  {
    return this.getClass().getName() + ":" + url.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of a flag indicating whether or not input is going
   * to be done for this connection.  This default to true unless the
   * doOutput flag is set to false, in which case this defaults to false.
   * 
   * @param doinput The new value of the doInput field
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   */
  public void setDoInput(boolean input)
  {
    if (connected)
      throw new IllegalStateException ("Already connected");

    doInput = input;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of a flag indicating whether or not input is going
   * to be done for this connection.  This default to true unless the
   * doOutput flag is set to false, in which case this defaults to false.
   *
   * @return true if input is to be done, false otherwise
   */
  public boolean getDoInput()
  {
    return doInput;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a boolean flag indicating whether or not output will be done
   * on this connection.  The default value is false, so this method can
   * be used to override the default
   *
   * @param output ture if output is to be done, false otherwise
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   */
  public void setDoOutput(boolean output)
  {
    if (connected)
      throw new IllegalStateException ("Already connected");

    doOutput = output;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a boolean flag indicating whether or not output will be done
   * on this connection.  This defaults to false.
   *
   * @return true if output is to be done, false otherwise
   */
  public boolean getDoOutput()
  {
    return doOutput;
  }

  /**
   * Sets a boolean flag indicating whether or not user interaction is
   * allowed for this connection.  (For example, in order to prompt for
   * username and password info.
   *
   * @param allow true if user interaction should be allowed, false otherwise.
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   */
  public void setAllowUserInteraction(boolean allow)
  {
    allowUserInteraction = allow;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a boolean flag indicating whether or not user interaction is
   * allowed for this connection.  (For example, in order to prompt for
   * username and password info.
   *
   * @return true if user interaction is allowed, false otherwise
   */
  public boolean getAllowUserInteraction()
  {
    return allowUserInteraction;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the default flag for whether or not interaction with a user
   * is allowed.  This will be used for all connections unless overridden
   *
   * @param allow true to allow user interaction, false otherwise
   */
  public static void setDefaultAllowUserInteraction(boolean allow)
  {
    defaultAllowUserInteraction = allow;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the default flag for whether or not interaction with a user
   * is allowed.  This will be used for all connections unless overridden
   *
   * @return true if user interaction is allowed, false otherwise
   */
  public static boolean getDefaultAllowUserInteraction()
  {
    return defaultAllowUserInteraction;
  }

  /**
   * Sets a boolean flag indicating whether or not caching will be used
   * (if possible) to store data downloaded via the connection.
   *
   * @param usecaches The new value
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   */
  public void setUseCaches(boolean usecaches)
  {
    if (connected)
      throw new IllegalStateException ("Already connected");

    useCaches = usecaches;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a boolean flag indicating whether or not caching will be used
   * (if possible) to store data downloaded via the connection.
   *
   * @return true if caching should be used if possible, false otherwise
   */
  public boolean getUseCaches()
  {
    return useCaches;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the ifModified since instance variable.  If this value is non
   * zero and the underlying protocol supports it, the actual document will
   * not be fetched unless it has been modified since this time.  The value
   * passed should  be 0 if this feature is to be disabled or the time expressed
   * as the number of seconds since midnight 1/1/1970 GMT otherwise.
   *
   * @param ifmodifiedsince The new value in milliseconds
   * since January 1, 1970 GMT
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   */
  public void setIfModifiedSince(long ifmodifiedsince)
  {
    if (connected)
      throw new IllegalStateException ("Already connected");

    ifModifiedSince = ifmodifiedsince;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the ifModified since instance variable.  If this value is non
   * zero and the underlying protocol supports it, the actual document will
   * not be fetched unless it has been modified since this time.  The value
   * returned will be 0 if this feature is disabled or the time expressed
   * as the number of seconds since midnight 1/1/1970 GMT otherwise
   *
   * @return The ifModifiedSince value
   */
  public long getIfModifiedSince()
  {
    return ifModifiedSince;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the default value of the useCaches field
   */
  public boolean getDefaultUseCaches()
  {
    return defaultUseCaches;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the default value used to determine whether or not caching
   * of documents will be done when possible.
   *
   * @param use true to use caches if possible by default, false otherwise
   */
  public void setDefaultUseCaches(boolean defaultusecaches)
  {
    defaultUseCaches = defaultusecaches;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the default value used to determine whether or not caching
   * of documents will be done when possible.
   *
   * @param key Key of the property to set
   * @param value Value of the Property to set
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   * @exception NullPointerException If key is null
   *
   * @see URLConnection#getRequestProperty(String key)
   * @see URLConnection#addRequestProperty(String key, String value)
   */
  public void setRequestProperty(String key, String value)
  {
    if (connected)
      throw new IllegalStateException ("Already connected");

    // Do nothing unless overridden by subclasses that support setting
    // header fields in the request.
  }

  /**
   * Sets the value of the named request property
   *
   * @param key Key of the property to add
   * @param value Value of the Property to add
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   * @exception NullPointerException If key is null
   * 
   * @see URLConnection#getRequestProperty(String key)
   * @see URLConnection#setRequestProperty(String key, String value)
   * 
   * @since 1.4
   */
  public void addRequestProperty(String key, String value)
  {
    if (connected)
      throw new IllegalStateException ("Already connected");

    if (getRequestProperty (key) == null)
      {
        setRequestProperty (key, value);
      }
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the named request property.
   *
   * @param key The name of the property
   *
   * @return Value of the property
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   *
   * @see URLConnection#setRequestProperty(String key, String value)
   * @see URLConnection#addRequestProperty(String key, String value)
   */
  public String getRequestProperty(String key)
  {
    if (connected)
      throw new IllegalStateException ("Already connected");

    // Overridden by subclasses that support reading header fields from the
    // request.
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Returns an unmodifiable Map containing the request properties.
   *
   * @return The map of properties
   *
   * @exception IllegalStateException If already connected
   *
   * @since 1.4
   */
  public Map getRequestProperties()
  {
    // Overridden by subclasses that support reading header fields from the
    // request.
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the default value of a request property.  This will be used
   * for all connections unless the value of the property is manually
   * overridden.
   *
   * @param key The request property name the default is being set for
   * @param value The value to set the default to
   *
   * @deprecated 1.3 The method setRequestProperty should be used instead
   *
   * @see URLConnectionr#setRequestProperty(String key, String value)
   */
  public static void setDefaultRequestProperty(String key, String value)
  {
    // Do nothing unless overridden by subclasses that support setting
    // default request properties.
  }

  /**
   * Returns the default value of a request property.  This will be used
   * for all connections unless the value of the property is manually
   * overridden.
   *
   * @param key The request property to return the default value of
   *
   * @return The value of the default property or null if not available
   * 
   * @deprecated 1.3 The method getRequestProperty should be used instead
   *
   * @see URLConnection#getRequestProperty(String key)
   */
  public static String getDefaultRequestProperty(String key)
  {
    // Overridden by subclasses that support default request properties.
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Set's the ContentHandlerFactory for an application.  This can be called
   * once and only once.  If it is called again, then an Error is thrown.
   * Unlike for other set factory methods, this one does not do a security
   * check prior to setting the factory.
   *
   * @param factory The ContentHandlerFactory for this application
   *
   * @exception Error If the factory has already been defined
   * @exception SecurityException If a security manager exists and its
   * checkSetFactory method doesn't allow the operation
   */
  public static synchronized void setContentHandlerFactory
                                    (ContentHandlerFactory fac)
  {
    if (factory != null)
      throw new Error("ContentHandlerFactory already set");

    // Throw an exception if an extant security mgr precludes
    // setting the factory.
    SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager();
    if (s != null)
      s.checkSetFactory();

    factory = fac;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the MIME type of a file based on the name of the file.  This
   * works by searching for the file's extension in a list of file extensions
   * and returning the MIME type associated with it.  If no type is found,
   * then a MIME type of "application/octet-stream" will be returned.
   *
   * @param filename The filename to determine the MIME type for
   *
   * @return The MIME type String
   *
   * @specnote public since JDK 1.4
   */
  public static String guessContentTypeFromName(String filename)
  {
    int dot = filename.lastIndexOf (".");
    
    if (dot != -1)
      {
	if (dot == filename.length())
	  return ("application/octet-stream");
	else
	  filename = filename.substring (dot + 1);
      }
    
    String type = MimeTypes.getMimeTypeFromExtension (filename);
    
    if (type == null)
      return("application/octet-stream");

    return type;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the MIME type of a stream based on the first few characters
   * at the beginning of the stream.  This routine can be used to determine
   * the MIME type if a server is believed to be returning an incorrect
   * MIME type.  This method returns "application/octet-stream" if it 
   * cannot determine the MIME type.
   * <p>
   * NOTE: Overriding MIME types sent from the server can be obnoxious
   * to user's.  See Internet Exploder 4 if you don't believe me.
   *
   * @param is The InputStream to determine the MIME type from
   *
   * @return The MIME type
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public static String guessContentTypeFromStream(InputStream is)
    throws IOException
  {
    is.mark(1024);
    // FIXME: Implement this. Use system mimetype informations (like "file").
    is.reset();
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * This method returns the <code>FileNameMap</code> object being used
   * to decode MIME types by file extension.
   *
   * @return The <code>FileNameMap</code>.
   *
   * @since 1.2
   */
  public static FileNameMap getFileNameMap()
  {
    return fileNameMap;
  }

  /**
   * This method set the <code>FileNameMap</code> object being used
   * to decode MIME types by file extension.
   *
   * @param map The <code>FileNameMap</code>.
   *
   * @exception SecurityException If a security manager exists and its
   * checkSetFactory method doesn't allow the operation
   * 
   * @since 1.2
   */
  public static void setFileNameMap(FileNameMap map)
  {
    // Throw an exception if an extant security mgr precludes
    // setting the factory.
    SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager();
    if (s != null)
      s.checkSetFactory();

    fileNameMap = map;
  }

  private ContentHandler setContentHandler(String contentType)
  {
    ContentHandler handler;

    // No content type so just handle it as the default.
    if (contentType == null || contentType == "")
      return null;

    // See if a handler has been cached for this content type.
    // For efficiency, if a content type has been searched for but not
    // found, it will be in the hash table but as the contentType String
    // instead of a ContentHandler.
    if ((handler = (ContentHandler) handlers.get(contentType)) != null)
      if (handler instanceof ContentHandler)
	return handler;
      else
	return null;

    // If a non-default factory has been set, use it to find the content type.
    if (factory != null)
      handler = factory.createContentHandler(contentType);

    // Non-default factory may have returned null or a factory wasn't set.
    // Use the default search algorithm to find a handler for this content type.
    if (handler == null)
      {
	// Get the list of packages to check and append our default handler
	// to it, along with the JDK specified default as a last resort.
	// Except in very unusual environments the JDK specified one shouldn't
	// ever be needed (or available).
	String propVal = System.getProperty("java.content.handler.pkgs");
	propVal = (propVal == null) ? "" : (propVal + "|");
	propVal = propVal + "gnu.gcj.content|sun.net.www.content";

	// Replace the '/' character in the content type with '.' and
	// all other non-alphabetic, non-numeric characters with '_'.
	StringTokenizer pkgPrefix = new StringTokenizer(propVal, "|");
	char[] cArray = contentType.toCharArray();
	for (int i = 0; i < cArray.length; i++)
	  {
	    if (cArray[i] == '/')
	      cArray[i] = '.';
	    else if (! ((cArray[i] >= 'A' && cArray[i] <= 'Z') || 
			(cArray[i] >= 'a' && cArray[i] <= 'z') ||
			(cArray[i] >= '0' && cArray[i] <= '9')))
	      cArray[i] = '_';
	  }
	String contentClass = new String(cArray);

	// See if a class of this content type exists in any of the packages.
	do
	  {
	    String facName = pkgPrefix.nextToken() + "." + contentClass;
	    try
	      {
		handler =
		  (ContentHandler) Class.forName(facName).newInstance();
	      }
	    catch (Exception e)
	      {
		// Can't instantiate; handler still null, go on to next element.
	      }
	  } while ((handler == null ||
		    ! (handler instanceof ContentHandler)) &&
		   pkgPrefix.hasMoreTokens());
      }

    // Update the hashtable with the new content handler.
    if (handler != null && handler instanceof ContentHandler)
      {
	handlers.put(contentType, handler);
	return handler;
      }

    // For efficiency on subsequent searches, put a dummy entry in the hash
    // table for content types that don't have a non-default ContentHandler.
    handlers.put(contentType, contentType);
    return null;
  }
  
  // We don't put these in a static initializer, because it creates problems
  // with initializer co-dependency: SimpleDateFormat's constructors eventually 
  // depend on URLConnection (via the java.text.*Symbols classes).
  private synchronized void initializeDateFormats()
  {
    if (dateformats_initialized)
      return;
    locale = new Locale("En", "Us", "Unix");
    dateFormat1 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss 'GMT'", 
                                       locale);
    dateFormat2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, dd-MMM-yy hh:mm:ss 'GMT'", 
                                       locale);
    dateFormat3 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d hh:mm:ss yyyy", locale);
    dateformats_initialized = true;
  }
} // class URLConnection