--- /home/tromey/gnu/Nightly/classpath/classpath/gnu/java/net/protocol/http/Handler.java	2004-12-01 02:20:33.000000000 -0700
+++ gnu/java/net/protocol/http/Handler.java	2003-10-19 02:20:54.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-/* Handler.java --
-   Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Handler.java -- HTTP protocol handler for java.net
+   Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Classpath.
 
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
 any later version.
- 
+
 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do so, delete this
 exception statement from your version. */
 
-
 package gnu.java.net.protocol.http;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -44,30 +43,44 @@
 import java.net.URLStreamHandler;
 
 /**
- * An HTTP URL stream handler.
+ * This is the protocol handler for the HTTP protocol.  It implements
+ * the abstract openConnection() method from URLStreamHandler by returning
+ * a new HttpURLConnection object (from this package).  All other 
+ * methods are inherited
  *
- * @author Chris Burdess (dog@gnu.org)
+ * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
+ * @author Warren Levy
+ * @author Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>
  */
-public class Handler
-  extends URLStreamHandler
+public class Handler extends URLStreamHandler
 {
-
   /**
-   * Returns the default HTTP port (80).
+   * A do nothing constructor
    */
-  protected int getDefaultPort()
+  public Handler()
   {
-    return HTTPConnection.HTTP_PORT;
   }
 
   /**
-   * Returns an HTTPURLConnection for the given URL.
+   * This method returs a new HttpURLConnection for the specified URL
+   *
+   * @param url The URL to return a connection for
+   *
+   * @return The URLConnection
+   *
+   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
    */
-  public URLConnection openConnection(URL url)
-    throws IOException
+  protected URLConnection openConnection (URL url) throws IOException
   {
-    return new HTTPURLConnection(url);
+    return new Connection (url);
   }
 
-}
+  /**
+   * Returns the default port for a URL parsed by this handler.
+   */
+  protected int getDefaultPort()
+  {
+    return 80;
+  }
 
+} // class Handler