http - How to compare two URLs in java?

Question

Here's a simple problem - given two urls, is there some built-in method, or an Apache library that decides whether they are (logically) equal?

For example, these two urls are equal:

http://stackoverflow.com
http://stackoverflow.com/

Answer 1

While URI.equals() (as well as the problematic URL.equals()) does not return true for these specific examples, I think it's the only case where equivalence can be assumed (because there is no empty path in the HTTP protocol).

The URIs http://stackoverflow.com/foo and http://stackoverflow.com/foo/ can not be assumed to be equivalent.

Maybe you can use URI.equals() wrapped in a utility method that handles this specific case explicitly.