2005-01-08 Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>

	* gnu/java/net/protocol/http/HTTPConnection.java
	(newRequest): Use "/" as path if no path given in URL.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/java/net/protocol/http/HTTPConnection.java b/gnu/java/net/protocol/http/HTTPConnection.java
index 42ca4bd22..dd5a0360c 100644
--- a/gnu/java/net/protocol/http/HTTPConnection.java
+++ b/gnu/java/net/protocol/http/HTTPConnection.java
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ public class HTTPConnection
       }
     if (path == null || path.length() == 0)
       {
-        throw new IllegalArgumentException("path must have non-zero length");
+        path = "/";
       }
     Request ret = new Request(this, method, path);
     ret.setHeader("Host", hostname);