Summary

Support for the Gopher protocol proxy properties is unused and should be removed. Support for the Gopher protocol was removed in JDK 8.

Problem

Properties for gopher protocol proxies are defined but are unused and should be removed.

Solution

Remove documentation, initialization and use of gopher related proxy properties.

Specification

The Gopher proxy settings are removed from conf/net.properties.

The properties and descriptions removed are: gopherProxyHost, and gopherProxyPort.

Diffs:

diff --git a/src/java.base/share/conf/net.properties b/src/java.base/share/conf/net.properties
--- a/src/java.base/share/conf/net.properties
+++ b/src/java.base/share/conf/net.properties
@@ -54,7 +54,0 @@
-# Gopher Proxy settings. proxyHost is the name of the proxy server
-# (e.g. proxy.mydomain.com), proxyPort is the port number to use (default
-# value is 80)
-#
-# gopher.proxyHost=
-# gopher.proxyPort=80
-#