Wow. And of course .equals is a synchronous method, so the whole thread blocks on a network operation whenever you do that. Helluva way to thread starve your a

Wow. And of course .equals is a synchronous method, so the whole thread blocks on a network operation whenever you do that. Helluva way to thread starve your application. :( https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#equals(java.lang.Object) https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#...