jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/URI.java
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+
+package java.net;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InvalidObjectException;
+import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.CharBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
+import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;
+import java.nio.charset.CoderResult;
+import java.nio.charset.CodingErrorAction;
+import java.nio.charset.CharacterCodingException;
+import java.text.Normalizer;
+import sun.nio.cs.ThreadLocalCoders;
+
+import java.lang.Character;             // for javadoc
+import java.lang.NullPointerException;  // for javadoc
+
+
+/**
+ * Represents a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) reference.
+ *
+ * <p> Aside from some minor deviations noted below, an instance of this
+ * class represents a URI reference as defined by
+ * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2396: Uniform
+ * Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax</i></a>, amended by <a
+ * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2732: Format for
+ * Literal IPv6 Addresses in URLs</i></a>. The Literal IPv6 address format
+ * also supports scope_ids. The syntax and usage of scope_ids is described
+ * <a href="Inet6Address.html#scoped">here</a>.
+ * This class provides constructors for creating URI instances from
+ * their components or by parsing their string forms, methods for accessing the
+ * various components of an instance, and methods for normalizing, resolving,
+ * and relativizing URI instances.  Instances of this class are immutable.
+ *
+ *
+ * <h3> URI syntax and components </h3>
+ *
+ * At the highest level a URI reference (hereinafter simply "URI") in string
+ * form has the syntax
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * [<i>scheme</i><b>{@code :}</b>]<i>scheme-specific-part</i>[<b>{@code #}</b><i>fragment</i>]
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * where square brackets [...] delineate optional components and the characters
+ * <b>{@code :}</b> and <b>{@code #}</b> stand for themselves.
+ *
+ * <p> An <i>absolute</i> URI specifies a scheme; a URI that is not absolute is
+ * said to be <i>relative</i>.  URIs are also classified according to whether
+ * they are <i>opaque</i> or <i>hierarchical</i>.
+ *
+ * <p> An <i>opaque</i> URI is an absolute URI whose scheme-specific part does
+ * not begin with a slash character ({@code '/'}).  Opaque URIs are not
+ * subject to further parsing.  Some examples of opaque URIs are:
+ *
+ * <blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 summary="layout">
+ * <tr><td>{@code mailto:java-net@java.sun.com}<td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>{@code news:comp.lang.java}<td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>{@code urn:isbn:096139210x}</td></tr>
+ * </table></blockquote>
+ *
+ * <p> A <i>hierarchical</i> URI is either an absolute URI whose
+ * scheme-specific part begins with a slash character, or a relative URI, that
+ * is, a URI that does not specify a scheme.  Some examples of hierarchical
+ * URIs are:
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/}<br>
+ * {@code docs/guide/collections/designfaq.html#28}<br>
+ * {@code ../../../demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}<br>
+ * {@code file:///~/calendar}
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * <p> A hierarchical URI is subject to further parsing according to the syntax
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * [<i>scheme</i><b>{@code :}</b>][<b>{@code //}</b><i>authority</i>][<i>path</i>][<b>{@code ?}</b><i>query</i>][<b>{@code #}</b><i>fragment</i>]
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * where the characters <b>{@code :}</b>, <b>{@code /}</b>,
+ * <b>{@code ?}</b>, and <b>{@code #}</b> stand for themselves.  The
+ * scheme-specific part of a hierarchical URI consists of the characters
+ * between the scheme and fragment components.
+ *
+ * <p> The authority component of a hierarchical URI is, if specified, either
+ * <i>server-based</i> or <i>registry-based</i>.  A server-based authority
+ * parses according to the familiar syntax
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * [<i>user-info</i><b>{@code @}</b>]<i>host</i>[<b>{@code :}</b><i>port</i>]
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * where the characters <b>{@code @}</b> and <b>{@code :}</b> stand for
+ * themselves.  Nearly all URI schemes currently in use are server-based.  An
+ * authority component that does not parse in this way is considered to be
+ * registry-based.
+ *
+ * <p> The path component of a hierarchical URI is itself said to be absolute
+ * if it begins with a slash character ({@code '/'}); otherwise it is
+ * relative.  The path of a hierarchical URI that is either absolute or
+ * specifies an authority is always absolute.
+ *
+ * <p> All told, then, a URI instance has the following nine components:
+ *
+ * <blockquote><table summary="Describes the components of a URI:scheme,scheme-specific-part,authority,user-info,host,port,path,query,fragment">
+ * <tr><th><i>Component</i></th><th><i>Type</i></th></tr>
+ * <tr><td>scheme</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>scheme-specific-part&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>authority</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>user-info</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>host</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>port</td><td>{@code int}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>path</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>query</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * <tr><td>fragment</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>
+ * </table></blockquote>
+ *
+ * In a given instance any particular component is either <i>undefined</i> or
+ * <i>defined</i> with a distinct value.  Undefined string components are
+ * represented by {@code null}, while undefined integer components are
+ * represented by {@code -1}.  A string component may be defined to have the
+ * empty string as its value; this is not equivalent to that component being
+ * undefined.
+ *
+ * <p> Whether a particular component is or is not defined in an instance
+ * depends upon the type of the URI being represented.  An absolute URI has a
+ * scheme component.  An opaque URI has a scheme, a scheme-specific part, and
+ * possibly a fragment, but has no other components.  A hierarchical URI always
+ * has a path (though it may be empty) and a scheme-specific-part (which at
+ * least contains the path), and may have any of the other components.  If the
+ * authority component is present and is server-based then the host component
+ * will be defined and the user-information and port components may be defined.
+ *
+ *
+ * <h4> Operations on URI instances </h4>
+ *
+ * The key operations supported by this class are those of
+ * <i>normalization</i>, <i>resolution</i>, and <i>relativization</i>.
+ *
+ * <p> <i>Normalization</i> is the process of removing unnecessary {@code "."}
+ * and {@code ".."} segments from the path component of a hierarchical URI.
+ * Each {@code "."} segment is simply removed.  A {@code ".."} segment is
+ * removed only if it is preceded by a non-{@code ".."} segment.
+ * Normalization has no effect upon opaque URIs.
+ *
+ * <p> <i>Resolution</i> is the process of resolving one URI against another,
+ * <i>base</i> URI.  The resulting URI is constructed from components of both
+ * URIs in the manner specified by RFC&nbsp;2396, taking components from the
+ * base URI for those not specified in the original.  For hierarchical URIs,
+ * the path of the original is resolved against the path of the base and then
+ * normalized.  The result, for example, of resolving
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code docs/guide/collections/designfaq.html#28}
+ * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * against the base URI {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/} is the result
+ * URI
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/collections/designfaq.html#28}
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * Resolving the relative URI
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code ../../../demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * against this result yields, in turn,
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * Resolution of both absolute and relative URIs, and of both absolute and
+ * relative paths in the case of hierarchical URIs, is supported.  Resolving
+ * the URI {@code file:///~calendar} against any other URI simply yields the
+ * original URI, since it is absolute.  Resolving the relative URI (2) above
+ * against the relative base URI (1) yields the normalized, but still relative,
+ * URI
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * <p> <i>Relativization</i>, finally, is the inverse of resolution: For any
+ * two normalized URIs <i>u</i> and&nbsp;<i>v</i>,
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ *   <i>u</i>{@code .relativize(}<i>u</i>{@code .resolve(}<i>v</i>{@code )).equals(}<i>v</i>{@code )}&nbsp;&nbsp;and<br>
+ *   <i>u</i>{@code .resolve(}<i>u</i>{@code .relativize(}<i>v</i>{@code )).equals(}<i>v</i>{@code )}&nbsp;&nbsp;.<br>
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * This operation is often useful when constructing a document containing URIs
+ * that must be made relative to the base URI of the document wherever
+ * possible.  For example, relativizing the URI
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/index.html}
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * against the base URI
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3}
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * yields the relative URI {@code docs/guide/index.html}.
+ *
+ *
+ * <h4> Character categories </h4>
+ *
+ * RFC&nbsp;2396 specifies precisely which characters are permitted in the
+ * various components of a URI reference.  The following categories, most of
+ * which are taken from that specification, are used below to describe these
+ * constraints:
+ *
+ * <blockquote><table cellspacing=2 summary="Describes categories alpha,digit,alphanum,unreserved,punct,reserved,escaped,and other">
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>alpha</i></th>
+ *       <td>The US-ASCII alphabetic characters,
+ *        {@code 'A'}&nbsp;through&nbsp;{@code 'Z'}
+ *        and {@code 'a'}&nbsp;through&nbsp;{@code 'z'}</td></tr>
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>digit</i></th>
+ *       <td>The US-ASCII decimal digit characters,
+ *       {@code '0'}&nbsp;through&nbsp;{@code '9'}</td></tr>
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>alphanum</i></th>
+ *       <td>All <i>alpha</i> and <i>digit</i> characters</td></tr>
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>unreserved</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
+ *       <td>All <i>alphanum</i> characters together with those in the string
+ *        {@code "_-!.~'()*"}</td></tr>
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>punct</i></th>
+ *       <td>The characters in the string {@code ",;:$&+="}</td></tr>
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>reserved</i></th>
+ *       <td>All <i>punct</i> characters together with those in the string
+ *        {@code "?/[]@"}</td></tr>
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>escaped</i></th>
+ *       <td>Escaped octets, that is, triplets consisting of the percent
+ *           character ({@code '%'}) followed by two hexadecimal digits
+ *           ({@code '0'}-{@code '9'}, {@code 'A'}-{@code 'F'}, and
+ *           {@code 'a'}-{@code 'f'})</td></tr>
+ *   <tr><th valign=top><i>other</i></th>
+ *       <td>The Unicode characters that are not in the US-ASCII character set,
+ *           are not control characters (according to the {@link
+ *           java.lang.Character#isISOControl(char) Character.isISOControl}
+ *           method), and are not space characters (according to the {@link
+ *           java.lang.Character#isSpaceChar(char) Character.isSpaceChar}
+ *           method)&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>(<b>Deviation from RFC 2396</b>, which is
+ *           limited to US-ASCII)</i></td></tr>
+ * </table></blockquote>
+ *
+ * <p><a name="legal-chars"></a> The set of all legal URI characters consists of
+ * the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>reserved</i>, <i>escaped</i>, and <i>other</i>
+ * characters.
+ *
+ *
+ * <h4> Escaped octets, quotation, encoding, and decoding </h4>
+ *
+ * RFC 2396 allows escaped octets to appear in the user-info, path, query, and
+ * fragment components.  Escaping serves two purposes in URIs:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> To <i>encode</i> non-US-ASCII characters when a URI is required to
+ *   conform strictly to RFC&nbsp;2396 by not containing any <i>other</i>
+ *   characters.  </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> To <i>quote</i> characters that are otherwise illegal in a
+ *   component.  The user-info, path, query, and fragment components differ
+ *   slightly in terms of which characters are considered legal and illegal.
+ *   </p></li>
+ *
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * These purposes are served in this class by three related operations:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *
+ *   <li><p><a name="encode"></a> A character is <i>encoded</i> by replacing it
+ *   with the sequence of escaped octets that represent that character in the
+ *   UTF-8 character set.  The Euro currency symbol ({@code '\u005Cu20AC'}),
+ *   for example, is encoded as {@code "%E2%82%AC"}.  <i>(<b>Deviation from
+ *   RFC&nbsp;2396</b>, which does not specify any particular character
+ *   set.)</i> </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p><a name="quote"></a> An illegal character is <i>quoted</i> simply by
+ *   encoding it.  The space character, for example, is quoted by replacing it
+ *   with {@code "%20"}.  UTF-8 contains US-ASCII, hence for US-ASCII
+ *   characters this transformation has exactly the effect required by
+ *   RFC&nbsp;2396. </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p><a name="decode"></a>
+ *   A sequence of escaped octets is <i>decoded</i> by
+ *   replacing it with the sequence of characters that it represents in the
+ *   UTF-8 character set.  UTF-8 contains US-ASCII, hence decoding has the
+ *   effect of de-quoting any quoted US-ASCII characters as well as that of
+ *   decoding any encoded non-US-ASCII characters.  If a <a
+ *   href="../nio/charset/CharsetDecoder.html#ce">decoding error</a> occurs
+ *   when decoding the escaped octets then the erroneous octets are replaced by
+ *   {@code '\u005CuFFFD'}, the Unicode replacement character.  </p></li>
+ *
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * These operations are exposed in the constructors and methods of this class
+ * as follows:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> The {@linkplain #URI(java.lang.String) single-argument
+ *   constructor} requires any illegal characters in its argument to be
+ *   quoted and preserves any escaped octets and <i>other</i> characters that
+ *   are present.  </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> The {@linkplain
+ *   #URI(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,int,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
+ *   multi-argument constructors} quote illegal characters as
+ *   required by the components in which they appear.  The percent character
+ *   ({@code '%'}) is always quoted by these constructors.  Any <i>other</i>
+ *   characters are preserved.  </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> The {@link #getRawUserInfo() getRawUserInfo}, {@link #getRawPath()
+ *   getRawPath}, {@link #getRawQuery() getRawQuery}, {@link #getRawFragment()
+ *   getRawFragment}, {@link #getRawAuthority() getRawAuthority}, and {@link
+ *   #getRawSchemeSpecificPart() getRawSchemeSpecificPart} methods return the
+ *   values of their corresponding components in raw form, without interpreting
+ *   any escaped octets.  The strings returned by these methods may contain
+ *   both escaped octets and <i>other</i> characters, and will not contain any
+ *   illegal characters.  </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> The {@link #getUserInfo() getUserInfo}, {@link #getPath()
+ *   getPath}, {@link #getQuery() getQuery}, {@link #getFragment()
+ *   getFragment}, {@link #getAuthority() getAuthority}, and {@link
+ *   #getSchemeSpecificPart() getSchemeSpecificPart} methods decode any escaped
+ *   octets in their corresponding components.  The strings returned by these
+ *   methods may contain both <i>other</i> characters and illegal characters,
+ *   and will not contain any escaped octets.  </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> The {@link #toString() toString} method returns a URI string with
+ *   all necessary quotation but which may contain <i>other</i> characters.
+ *   </p></li>
+ *
+ *   <li><p> The {@link #toASCIIString() toASCIIString} method returns a fully
+ *   quoted and encoded URI string that does not contain any <i>other</i>
+ *   characters.  </p></li>
+ *
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ *
+ * <h4> Identities </h4>
+ *
+ * For any URI <i>u</i>, it is always the case that
+ *
+ * <blockquote>
+ * {@code new URI(}<i>u</i>{@code .toString()).equals(}<i>u</i>{@code )}&nbsp;.
+ * </blockquote>
+ *
+ * For any URI <i>u</i> that does not contain redundant syntax such as two
+ * slashes before an empty authority (as in {@code file:///tmp/}&nbsp;) or a
+ * colon following a host name but no port (as in
+ * {@code http://java.sun.com:}&nbsp;), and that does not encode characters
+ * except those that must be quoted, the following identities also hold:
+ * <pre>
+ *     new URI(<i>u</i>.getScheme(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getSchemeSpecificPart(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getFragment())
+ *     .equals(<i>u</i>)</pre>
+ * in all cases,
+ * <pre>
+ *     new URI(<i>u</i>.getScheme(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getUserInfo(), <i>u</i>.getAuthority(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getPath(), <i>u</i>.getQuery(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getFragment())
+ *     .equals(<i>u</i>)</pre>
+ * if <i>u</i> is hierarchical, and
+ * <pre>
+ *     new URI(<i>u</i>.getScheme(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getUserInfo(), <i>u</i>.getHost(), <i>u</i>.getPort(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getPath(), <i>u</i>.getQuery(),
+ *             <i>u</i>.getFragment())
+ *     .equals(<i>u</i>)</pre>
+ * if <i>u</i> is hierarchical and has either no authority or a server-based
+ * authority.
+ *
+ *
+ * <h4> URIs, URLs, and URNs </h4>
+ *
+ * A URI is a uniform resource <i>identifier</i> while a URL is a uniform
+ * resource <i>locator</i>.  Hence every URL is a URI, abstractly speaking, but
+ * not every URI is a URL.  This is because there is another subcategory of
+ * URIs, uniform resource <i>names</i> (URNs), which name resources but do not
+ * specify how to locate them.  The {@code mailto}, {@code news}, and
+ * {@code isbn} URIs shown above are examples of URNs.
+ *
+ * <p> The conceptual distinction between URIs and URLs is reflected in the
+ * differences between this class and the {@link URL} class.
+ *
+ * <p> An instance of this class represents a URI reference in the syntactic
+ * sense defined by RFC&nbsp;2396.  A URI may be either absolute or relative.
+ * A URI string is parsed according to the generic syntax without regard to the
+ * scheme, if any, that it specifies.  No lookup of the host, if any, is
+ * performed, and no scheme-dependent stream handler is constructed.  Equality,
+ * hashing, and comparison are defined strictly in terms of the character
+ * content of the instance.  In other words, a URI instance is little more than
+ * a structured string that supports the syntactic, scheme-independent
+ * operations of comparison, normalization, resolution, and relativization.
+ *
+ * <p> An instance of the {@link URL} class, by contrast, represents the
+ * syntactic components of a URL together with some of the information required
+ * to access the resource that it describes.  A URL must be absolute, that is,
+ * it must always specify a scheme.  A URL string is parsed according to its
+ * scheme.  A stream handler is always established for a URL, and in fact it is
+ * impossible to create a URL instance for a scheme for which no handler is
+ * available.  Equality and hashing depend upon both the scheme and the
+ * Internet address of the host, if any; comparison is not defined.  In other
+ * words, a URL is a structured string that supports the syntactic operation of
+ * resolution as well as the network I/O operations of looking up the host and
+ * opening a connection to the specified resource.
+ *
+ *
+ * @author Mark Reinhold
+ * @since 1.4
+ *
+ * @see <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2279: UTF-8, a
+ * transformation format of ISO 10646</i></a>, <br><a
+ * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2373: IPv6 Addressing
+ * Architecture</i></a>, <br><a
+ * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2396: Uniform
+ * Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax</i></a>, <br><a
+ * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2732: Format for
+ * Literal IPv6 Addresses in URLs</i></a>, <br><a
+ * href="URISyntaxException.html">URISyntaxException</a>
+ */
+
+public final class URI
+    implements Comparable<URI>, Serializable
+{
+
+    // Note: Comments containing the word "ASSERT" indicate places where a
+    // throw of an InternalError should be replaced by an appropriate assertion
+    // statement once asserts are enabled in the build.
+
+    static final long serialVersionUID = -6052424284110960213L;
+
+
+    // -- Properties and components of this instance --
+
+    // Components of all URIs: [<scheme>:]<scheme-specific-part>[#<fragment>]
+    private transient String scheme;            // null ==> relative URI
+    private transient String fragment;
+
+    // Hierarchical URI components: [//<authority>]<path>[?<query>]
+    private transient String authority;         // Registry or server
+
+    // Server-based authority: [<userInfo>@]<host>[:<port>]
+    private transient String userInfo;
+    private transient String host;              // null ==> registry-based
+    private transient int port = -1;            // -1 ==> undefined
+
+    // Remaining components of hierarchical URIs
+    private transient String path;              // null ==> opaque
+    private transient String query;
+
+    // The remaining fields may be computed on demand
+
+    private volatile transient String schemeSpecificPart;
+    private volatile transient int hash;        // Zero ==> undefined
+
+    private volatile transient String decodedUserInfo = null;
+    private volatile transient String decodedAuthority = null;
+    private volatile transient String decodedPath = null;
+    private volatile transient String decodedQuery = null;
+    private volatile transient String decodedFragment = null;
+    private volatile transient String decodedSchemeSpecificPart = null;
+
+    /**
+     * The string form of this URI.
+     *
+     * @serial
+     */
+    private volatile String string;             // The only serializable field
+
+
+
+    // -- Constructors and factories --
+
+    private URI() { }                           // Used internally
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a URI by parsing the given string.
+     *
+     * <p> This constructor parses the given string exactly as specified by the
+     * grammar in <a
+     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,
+     * Appendix&nbsp;A, <b><i>except for the following deviations:</i></b> </p>
+     *
+     * <ul>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> An empty authority component is permitted as long as it is
+     *   followed by a non-empty path, a query component, or a fragment
+     *   component.  This allows the parsing of URIs such as
+     *   {@code "file:///foo/bar"}, which seems to be the intent of
+     *   RFC&nbsp;2396 although the grammar does not permit it.  If the
+     *   authority component is empty then the user-information, host, and port
+     *   components are undefined. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Empty relative paths are permitted; this seems to be the
+     *   intent of RFC&nbsp;2396 although the grammar does not permit it.  The
+     *   primary consequence of this deviation is that a standalone fragment
+     *   such as {@code "#foo"} parses as a relative URI with an empty path
+     *   and the given fragment, and can be usefully <a
+     *   href="#resolve-frag">resolved</a> against a base URI.
+     *
+     *   <li><p> IPv4 addresses in host components are parsed rigorously, as
+     *   specified by <a
+     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt">RFC&nbsp;2732</a>: Each
+     *   element of a dotted-quad address must contain no more than three
+     *   decimal digits.  Each element is further constrained to have a value
+     *   no greater than 255. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li> <p> Hostnames in host components that comprise only a single
+     *   domain label are permitted to start with an <i>alphanum</i>
+     *   character. This seems to be the intent of <a
+     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>
+     *   section&nbsp;3.2.2 although the grammar does not permit it. The
+     *   consequence of this deviation is that the authority component of a
+     *   hierarchical URI such as {@code s://123}, will parse as a server-based
+     *   authority. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> IPv6 addresses are permitted for the host component.  An IPv6
+     *   address must be enclosed in square brackets ({@code '['} and
+     *   {@code ']'}) as specified by <a
+     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt">RFC&nbsp;2732</a>.  The
+     *   IPv6 address itself must parse according to <a
+     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt">RFC&nbsp;2373</a>.  IPv6
+     *   addresses are further constrained to describe no more than sixteen
+     *   bytes of address information, a constraint implicit in RFC&nbsp;2373
+     *   but not expressible in the grammar. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Characters in the <i>other</i> category are permitted wherever
+     *   RFC&nbsp;2396 permits <i>escaped</i> octets, that is, in the
+     *   user-information, path, query, and fragment components, as well as in
+     *   the authority component if the authority is registry-based.  This
+     *   allows URIs to contain Unicode characters beyond those in the US-ASCII
+     *   character set. </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ul>
+     *
+     * @param  str   The string to be parsed into a URI
+     *
+     * @throws  NullPointerException
+     *          If {@code str} is {@code null}
+     *
+     * @throws  URISyntaxException
+     *          If the given string violates RFC&nbsp;2396, as augmented
+     *          by the above deviations
+     */
+    public URI(String str) throws URISyntaxException {
+        new Parser(str).parse(false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a hierarchical URI from the given components.
+     *
+     * <p> If a scheme is given then the path, if also given, must either be
+     * empty or begin with a slash character ({@code '/'}).  Otherwise a
+     * component of the new URI may be left undefined by passing {@code null}
+     * for the corresponding parameter or, in the case of the {@code port}
+     * parameter, by passing {@code -1}.
+     *
+     * <p> This constructor first builds a URI string from the given components
+     * according to the rules specified in <a
+     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,
+     * section&nbsp;5.2, step&nbsp;7: </p>
+     *
+     * <ol>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Initially, the result string is empty. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a scheme is given then it is appended to the result,
+     *   followed by a colon character ({@code ':'}).  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If user information, a host, or a port are given then the
+     *   string {@code "//"} is appended.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If user information is given then it is appended, followed by
+     *   a commercial-at character ({@code '@'}).  Any character not in the
+     *   <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>
+     *   categories is <a href="#quote">quoted</a>.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a host is given then it is appended.  If the host is a
+     *   literal IPv6 address but is not enclosed in square brackets
+     *   ({@code '['} and {@code ']'}) then the square brackets are added.
+     *   </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a port number is given then a colon character
+     *   ({@code ':'}) is appended, followed by the port number in decimal.
+     *   </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a path is given then it is appended.  Any character not in
+     *   the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>
+     *   categories, and not equal to the slash character ({@code '/'}) or the
+     *   commercial-at character ({@code '@'}), is quoted.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a query is given then a question-mark character
+     *   ({@code '?'}) is appended, followed by the query.  Any character that
+     *   is not a <a href="#legal-chars">legal URI character</a> is quoted.
+     *   </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Finally, if a fragment is given then a hash character
+     *   ({@code '#'}) is appended, followed by the fragment.  Any character
+     *   that is not a legal URI character is quoted.  </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * <p> The resulting URI string is then parsed as if by invoking the {@link
+     * #URI(String)} constructor and then invoking the {@link
+     * #parseServerAuthority()} method upon the result; this may cause a {@link
+     * URISyntaxException} to be thrown.  </p>
+     *
+     * @param   scheme    Scheme name
+     * @param   userInfo  User name and authorization information
+     * @param   host      Host name
+     * @param   port      Port number
+     * @param   path      Path
+     * @param   query     Query
+     * @param   fragment  Fragment
+     *
+     * @throws URISyntaxException
+     *         If both a scheme and a path are given but the path is relative,
+     *         if the URI string constructed from the given components violates
+     *         RFC&nbsp;2396, or if the authority component of the string is
+     *         present but cannot be parsed as a server-based authority
+     */
+    public URI(String scheme,
+               String userInfo, String host, int port,
+               String path, String query, String fragment)
+        throws URISyntaxException
+    {
+        String s = toString(scheme, null,
+                            null, userInfo, host, port,
+                            path, query, fragment);
+        checkPath(s, scheme, path);
+        new Parser(s).parse(true);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a hierarchical URI from the given components.
+     *
+     * <p> If a scheme is given then the path, if also given, must either be
+     * empty or begin with a slash character ({@code '/'}).  Otherwise a
+     * component of the new URI may be left undefined by passing {@code null}
+     * for the corresponding parameter.
+     *
+     * <p> This constructor first builds a URI string from the given components
+     * according to the rules specified in <a
+     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,
+     * section&nbsp;5.2, step&nbsp;7: </p>
+     *
+     * <ol>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Initially, the result string is empty.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a scheme is given then it is appended to the result,
+     *   followed by a colon character ({@code ':'}).  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If an authority is given then the string {@code "//"} is
+     *   appended, followed by the authority.  If the authority contains a
+     *   literal IPv6 address then the address must be enclosed in square
+     *   brackets ({@code '['} and {@code ']'}).  Any character not in the
+     *   <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>
+     *   categories, and not equal to the commercial-at character
+     *   ({@code '@'}), is <a href="#quote">quoted</a>.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a path is given then it is appended.  Any character not in
+     *   the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>
+     *   categories, and not equal to the slash character ({@code '/'}) or the
+     *   commercial-at character ({@code '@'}), is quoted.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a query is given then a question-mark character
+     *   ({@code '?'}) is appended, followed by the query.  Any character that
+     *   is not a <a href="#legal-chars">legal URI character</a> is quoted.
+     *   </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Finally, if a fragment is given then a hash character
+     *   ({@code '#'}) is appended, followed by the fragment.  Any character
+     *   that is not a legal URI character is quoted.  </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * <p> The resulting URI string is then parsed as if by invoking the {@link
+     * #URI(String)} constructor and then invoking the {@link
+     * #parseServerAuthority()} method upon the result; this may cause a {@link
+     * URISyntaxException} to be thrown.  </p>
+     *
+     * @param   scheme     Scheme name
+     * @param   authority  Authority
+     * @param   path       Path
+     * @param   query      Query
+     * @param   fragment   Fragment
+     *
+     * @throws URISyntaxException
+     *         If both a scheme and a path are given but the path is relative,
+     *         if the URI string constructed from the given components violates
+     *         RFC&nbsp;2396, or if the authority component of the string is
+     *         present but cannot be parsed as a server-based authority
+     */
+    public URI(String scheme,
+               String authority,
+               String path, String query, String fragment)
+        throws URISyntaxException
+    {
+        String s = toString(scheme, null,
+                            authority, null, null, -1,
+                            path, query, fragment);
+        checkPath(s, scheme, path);
+        new Parser(s).parse(false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a hierarchical URI from the given components.
+     *
+     * <p> A component may be left undefined by passing {@code null}.
+     *
+     * <p> This convenience constructor works as if by invoking the
+     * seven-argument constructor as follows:
+     *
+     * <blockquote>
+     * {@code new} {@link #URI(String, String, String, int, String, String, String)
+     * URI}{@code (scheme, null, host, -1, path, null, fragment);}
+     * </blockquote>
+     *
+     * @param   scheme    Scheme name
+     * @param   host      Host name
+     * @param   path      Path
+     * @param   fragment  Fragment
+     *
+     * @throws  URISyntaxException
+     *          If the URI string constructed from the given components
+     *          violates RFC&nbsp;2396
+     */
+    public URI(String scheme, String host, String path, String fragment)
+        throws URISyntaxException
+    {
+        this(scheme, null, host, -1, path, null, fragment);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a URI from the given components.
+     *
+     * <p> A component may be left undefined by passing {@code null}.
+     *
+     * <p> This constructor first builds a URI in string form using the given
+     * components as follows:  </p>
+     *
+     * <ol>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Initially, the result string is empty.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a scheme is given then it is appended to the result,
+     *   followed by a colon character ({@code ':'}).  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a scheme-specific part is given then it is appended.  Any
+     *   character that is not a <a href="#legal-chars">legal URI character</a>
+     *   is <a href="#quote">quoted</a>.  </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Finally, if a fragment is given then a hash character
+     *   ({@code '#'}) is appended to the string, followed by the fragment.
+     *   Any character that is not a legal URI character is quoted.  </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * <p> The resulting URI string is then parsed in order to create the new
+     * URI instance as if by invoking the {@link #URI(String)} constructor;
+     * this may cause a {@link URISyntaxException} to be thrown.  </p>
+     *
+     * @param   scheme    Scheme name
+     * @param   ssp       Scheme-specific part
+     * @param   fragment  Fragment
+     *
+     * @throws  URISyntaxException
+     *          If the URI string constructed from the given components
+     *          violates RFC&nbsp;2396
+     */
+    public URI(String scheme, String ssp, String fragment)
+        throws URISyntaxException
+    {
+        new Parser(toString(scheme, ssp,
+                            null, null, null, -1,
+                            null, null, fragment))
+            .parse(false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a URI by parsing the given string.
+     *
+     * <p> This convenience factory method works as if by invoking the {@link
+     * #URI(String)} constructor; any {@link URISyntaxException} thrown by the
+     * constructor is caught and wrapped in a new {@link
+     * IllegalArgumentException} object, which is then thrown.
+     *
+     * <p> This method is provided for use in situations where it is known that
+     * the given string is a legal URI, for example for URI constants declared
+     * within in a program, and so it would be considered a programming error
+     * for the string not to parse as such.  The constructors, which throw
+     * {@link URISyntaxException} directly, should be used situations where a
+     * URI is being constructed from user input or from some other source that
+     * may be prone to errors.  </p>
+     *
+     * @param  str   The string to be parsed into a URI
+     * @return The new URI
+     *
+     * @throws  NullPointerException
+     *          If {@code str} is {@code null}
+     *
+     * @throws  IllegalArgumentException
+     *          If the given string violates RFC&nbsp;2396
+     */
+    public static URI create(String str) {
+        try {
+            return new URI(str);
+        } catch (URISyntaxException x) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(x.getMessage(), x);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    // -- Operations --
+
+    /**
+     * Attempts to parse this URI's authority component, if defined, into
+     * user-information, host, and port components.
+     *
+     * <p> If this URI's authority component has already been recognized as
+     * being server-based then it will already have been parsed into
+     * user-information, host, and port components.  In this case, or if this
+     * URI has no authority component, this method simply returns this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> Otherwise this method attempts once more to parse the authority
+     * component into user-information, host, and port components, and throws
+     * an exception describing why the authority component could not be parsed
+     * in that way.
+     *
+     * <p> This method is provided because the generic URI syntax specified in
+     * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>
+     * cannot always distinguish a malformed server-based authority from a
+     * legitimate registry-based authority.  It must therefore treat some
+     * instances of the former as instances of the latter.  The authority
+     * component in the URI string {@code "//foo:bar"}, for example, is not a
+     * legal server-based authority but it is legal as a registry-based
+     * authority.
+     *
+     * <p> In many common situations, for example when working URIs that are
+     * known to be either URNs or URLs, the hierarchical URIs being used will
+     * always be server-based.  They therefore must either be parsed as such or
+     * treated as an error.  In these cases a statement such as
+     *
+     * <blockquote>
+     * {@code URI }<i>u</i>{@code  = new URI(str).parseServerAuthority();}
+     * </blockquote>
+     *
+     * <p> can be used to ensure that <i>u</i> always refers to a URI that, if
+     * it has an authority component, has a server-based authority with proper
+     * user-information, host, and port components.  Invoking this method also
+     * ensures that if the authority could not be parsed in that way then an
+     * appropriate diagnostic message can be issued based upon the exception
+     * that is thrown. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  A URI whose authority field has been parsed
+     *          as a server-based authority
+     *
+     * @throws  URISyntaxException
+     *          If the authority component of this URI is defined
+     *          but cannot be parsed as a server-based authority
+     *          according to RFC&nbsp;2396
+     */
+    public URI parseServerAuthority()
+        throws URISyntaxException
+    {
+        // We could be clever and cache the error message and index from the
+        // exception thrown during the original parse, but that would require
+        // either more fields or a more-obscure representation.
+        if ((host != null) || (authority == null))
+            return this;
+        defineString();
+        new Parser(string).parse(true);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Normalizes this URI's path.
+     *
+     * <p> If this URI is opaque, or if its path is already in normal form,
+     * then this URI is returned.  Otherwise a new URI is constructed that is
+     * identical to this URI except that its path is computed by normalizing
+     * this URI's path in a manner consistent with <a
+     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,
+     * section&nbsp;5.2, step&nbsp;6, sub-steps&nbsp;c through&nbsp;f; that is:
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * <ol>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> All {@code "."} segments are removed. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If a {@code ".."} segment is preceded by a non-{@code ".."}
+     *   segment then both of these segments are removed.  This step is
+     *   repeated until it is no longer applicable. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If the path is relative, and if its first segment contains a
+     *   colon character ({@code ':'}), then a {@code "."} segment is
+     *   prepended.  This prevents a relative URI with a path such as
+     *   {@code "a:b/c/d"} from later being re-parsed as an opaque URI with a
+     *   scheme of {@code "a"} and a scheme-specific part of {@code "b/c/d"}.
+     *   <b><i>(Deviation from RFC&nbsp;2396)</i></b> </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * <p> A normalized path will begin with one or more {@code ".."} segments
+     * if there were insufficient non-{@code ".."} segments preceding them to
+     * allow their removal.  A normalized path will begin with a {@code "."}
+     * segment if one was inserted by step 3 above.  Otherwise, a normalized
+     * path will not contain any {@code "."} or {@code ".."} segments. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  A URI equivalent to this URI,
+     *          but whose path is in normal form
+     */
+    public URI normalize() {
+        return normalize(this);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Resolves the given URI against this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> If the given URI is already absolute, or if this URI is opaque, then
+     * the given URI is returned.
+     *
+     * <p><a name="resolve-frag"></a> If the given URI's fragment component is
+     * defined, its path component is empty, and its scheme, authority, and
+     * query components are undefined, then a URI with the given fragment but
+     * with all other components equal to those of this URI is returned.  This
+     * allows a URI representing a standalone fragment reference, such as
+     * {@code "#foo"}, to be usefully resolved against a base URI.
+     *
+     * <p> Otherwise this method constructs a new hierarchical URI in a manner
+     * consistent with <a
+     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,
+     * section&nbsp;5.2; that is: </p>
+     *
+     * <ol>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> A new URI is constructed with this URI's scheme and the given
+     *   URI's query and fragment components. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If the given URI has an authority component then the new URI's
+     *   authority and path are taken from the given URI. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Otherwise the new URI's authority component is copied from
+     *   this URI, and its path is computed as follows: </p>
+     *
+     *   <ol>
+     *
+     *     <li><p> If the given URI's path is absolute then the new URI's path
+     *     is taken from the given URI. </p></li>
+     *
+     *     <li><p> Otherwise the given URI's path is relative, and so the new
+     *     URI's path is computed by resolving the path of the given URI
+     *     against the path of this URI.  This is done by concatenating all but
+     *     the last segment of this URI's path, if any, with the given URI's
+     *     path and then normalizing the result as if by invoking the {@link
+     *     #normalize() normalize} method. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   </ol></li>
+     *
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * <p> The result of this method is absolute if, and only if, either this
+     * URI is absolute or the given URI is absolute.  </p>
+     *
+     * @param  uri  The URI to be resolved against this URI
+     * @return The resulting URI
+     *
+     * @throws  NullPointerException
+     *          If {@code uri} is {@code null}
+     */
+    public URI resolve(URI uri) {
+        return resolve(this, uri);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new URI by parsing the given string and then resolving it
+     * against this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> This convenience method works as if invoking it were equivalent to
+     * evaluating the expression {@link #resolve(java.net.URI)
+     * resolve}{@code (URI.}{@link #create(String) create}{@code (str))}. </p>
+     *
+     * @param  str   The string to be parsed into a URI
+     * @return The resulting URI
+     *
+     * @throws  NullPointerException
+     *          If {@code str} is {@code null}
+     *
+     * @throws  IllegalArgumentException
+     *          If the given string violates RFC&nbsp;2396
+     */
+    public URI resolve(String str) {
+        return resolve(URI.create(str));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Relativizes the given URI against this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The relativization of the given URI against this URI is computed as
+     * follows: </p>
+     *
+     * <ol>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> If either this URI or the given URI are opaque, or if the
+     *   scheme and authority components of the two URIs are not identical, or
+     *   if the path of this URI is not a prefix of the path of the given URI,
+     *   then the given URI is returned. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Otherwise a new relative hierarchical URI is constructed with
+     *   query and fragment components taken from the given URI and with a path
+     *   component computed by removing this URI's path from the beginning of
+     *   the given URI's path. </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * @param  uri  The URI to be relativized against this URI
+     * @return The resulting URI
+     *
+     * @throws  NullPointerException
+     *          If {@code uri} is {@code null}
+     */
+    public URI relativize(URI uri) {
+        return relativize(this, uri);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a URL from this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> This convenience method works as if invoking it were equivalent to
+     * evaluating the expression {@code new URL(this.toString())} after
+     * first checking that this URI is absolute. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  A URL constructed from this URI
+     *
+     * @throws  IllegalArgumentException
+     *          If this URL is not absolute
+     *
+     * @throws  MalformedURLException
+     *          If a protocol handler for the URL could not be found,
+     *          or if some other error occurred while constructing the URL
+     */
+    public URL toURL()
+        throws MalformedURLException {
+        if (!isAbsolute())
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("URI is not absolute");
+        return new URL(toString());
+    }
+
+    // -- Component access methods --
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the scheme component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The scheme component of a URI, if defined, only contains characters
+     * in the <i>alphanum</i> category and in the string {@code "-.+"}.  A
+     * scheme always starts with an <i>alpha</i> character. <p>
+     *
+     * The scheme component of a URI cannot contain escaped octets, hence this
+     * method does not perform any decoding.
+     *
+     * @return  The scheme component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the scheme is undefined
+     */
+    public String getScheme() {
+        return scheme;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Tells whether or not this URI is absolute.
+     *
+     * <p> A URI is absolute if, and only if, it has a scheme component. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  {@code true} if, and only if, this URI is absolute
+     */
+    public boolean isAbsolute() {
+        return scheme != null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Tells whether or not this URI is opaque.
+     *
+     * <p> A URI is opaque if, and only if, it is absolute and its
+     * scheme-specific part does not begin with a slash character ('/').
+     * An opaque URI has a scheme, a scheme-specific part, and possibly
+     * a fragment; all other components are undefined. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  {@code true} if, and only if, this URI is opaque
+     */
+    public boolean isOpaque() {
+        return path == null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw scheme-specific part of this URI.  The scheme-specific
+     * part is never undefined, though it may be empty.
+     *
+     * <p> The scheme-specific part of a URI only contains legal URI
+     * characters. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The raw scheme-specific part of this URI
+     *          (never {@code null})
+     */
+    public String getRawSchemeSpecificPart() {
+        defineSchemeSpecificPart();
+        return schemeSpecificPart;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the decoded scheme-specific part of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the
+     * {@link #getRawSchemeSpecificPart() getRawSchemeSpecificPart} method
+     * except that all sequences of escaped octets are <a
+     * href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The decoded scheme-specific part of this URI
+     *          (never {@code null})
+     */
+    public String getSchemeSpecificPart() {
+        if (decodedSchemeSpecificPart == null)
+            decodedSchemeSpecificPart = decode(getRawSchemeSpecificPart());
+        return decodedSchemeSpecificPart;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw authority component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The authority component of a URI, if defined, only contains the
+     * commercial-at character ({@code '@'}) and characters in the
+     * <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, and <i>other</i>
+     * categories.  If the authority is server-based then it is further
+     * constrained to have valid user-information, host, and port
+     * components. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The raw authority component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the authority is undefined
+     */
+    public String getRawAuthority() {
+        return authority;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the decoded authority component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the
+     * {@link #getRawAuthority() getRawAuthority} method except that all
+     * sequences of escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The decoded authority component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the authority is undefined
+     */
+    public String getAuthority() {
+        if (decodedAuthority == null)
+            decodedAuthority = decode(authority);
+        return decodedAuthority;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw user-information component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The user-information component of a URI, if defined, only contains
+     * characters in the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, and
+     * <i>other</i> categories. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The raw user-information component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the user information is undefined
+     */
+    public String getRawUserInfo() {
+        return userInfo;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the decoded user-information component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the
+     * {@link #getRawUserInfo() getRawUserInfo} method except that all
+     * sequences of escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The decoded user-information component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the user information is undefined
+     */
+    public String getUserInfo() {
+        if ((decodedUserInfo == null) && (userInfo != null))
+            decodedUserInfo = decode(userInfo);
+        return decodedUserInfo;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the host component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The host component of a URI, if defined, will have one of the
+     * following forms: </p>
+     *
+     * <ul>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> A domain name consisting of one or more <i>labels</i>
+     *   separated by period characters ({@code '.'}), optionally followed by
+     *   a period character.  Each label consists of <i>alphanum</i> characters
+     *   as well as hyphen characters ({@code '-'}), though hyphens never
+     *   occur as the first or last characters in a label. The rightmost
+     *   label of a domain name consisting of two or more labels, begins
+     *   with an <i>alpha</i> character. </li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> A dotted-quad IPv4 address of the form
+     *   <i>digit</i>{@code +.}<i>digit</i>{@code +.}<i>digit</i>{@code +.}<i>digit</i>{@code +},
+     *   where no <i>digit</i> sequence is longer than three characters and no
+     *   sequence has a value larger than 255. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> An IPv6 address enclosed in square brackets ({@code '['} and
+     *   {@code ']'}) and consisting of hexadecimal digits, colon characters
+     *   ({@code ':'}), and possibly an embedded IPv4 address.  The full
+     *   syntax of IPv6 addresses is specified in <a
+     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2373: IPv6
+     *   Addressing Architecture</i></a>.  </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ul>
+     *
+     * The host component of a URI cannot contain escaped octets, hence this
+     * method does not perform any decoding.
+     *
+     * @return  The host component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the host is undefined
+     */
+    public String getHost() {
+        return host;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the port number of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The port component of a URI, if defined, is a non-negative
+     * integer. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The port component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code -1} if the port is undefined
+     */
+    public int getPort() {
+        return port;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw path component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The path component of a URI, if defined, only contains the slash
+     * character ({@code '/'}), the commercial-at character ({@code '@'}),
+     * and characters in the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>,
+     * and <i>other</i> categories. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The path component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the path is undefined
+     */
+    public String getRawPath() {
+        return path;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the decoded path component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the
+     * {@link #getRawPath() getRawPath} method except that all sequences of
+     * escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The decoded path component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the path is undefined
+     */
+    public String getPath() {
+        if ((decodedPath == null) && (path != null))
+            decodedPath = decode(path);
+        return decodedPath;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw query component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The query component of a URI, if defined, only contains legal URI
+     * characters. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The raw query component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the query is undefined
+     */
+    public String getRawQuery() {
+        return query;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the decoded query component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the
+     * {@link #getRawQuery() getRawQuery} method except that all sequences of
+     * escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The decoded query component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the query is undefined
+     */
+    public String getQuery() {
+        if ((decodedQuery == null) && (query != null))
+            decodedQuery = decode(query, false);
+        return decodedQuery;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the raw fragment component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The fragment component of a URI, if defined, only contains legal URI
+     * characters. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The raw fragment component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the fragment is undefined
+     */
+    public String getRawFragment() {
+        return fragment;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the decoded fragment component of this URI.
+     *
+     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the
+     * {@link #getRawFragment() getRawFragment} method except that all
+     * sequences of escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The decoded fragment component of this URI,
+     *          or {@code null} if the fragment is undefined
+     */
+    public String getFragment() {
+        if ((decodedFragment == null) && (fragment != null))
+            decodedFragment = decode(fragment, false);
+        return decodedFragment;
+    }
+
+
+    // -- Equality, comparison, hash code, toString, and serialization --
+
+    /**
+     * Tests this URI for equality with another object.
+     *
+     * <p> If the given object is not a URI then this method immediately
+     * returns {@code false}.
+     *
+     * <p> For two URIs to be considered equal requires that either both are
+     * opaque or both are hierarchical.  Their schemes must either both be
+     * undefined or else be equal without regard to case. Their fragments
+     * must either both be undefined or else be equal.
+     *
+     * <p> For two opaque URIs to be considered equal, their scheme-specific
+     * parts must be equal.
+     *
+     * <p> For two hierarchical URIs to be considered equal, their paths must
+     * be equal and their queries must either both be undefined or else be
+     * equal.  Their authorities must either both be undefined, or both be
+     * registry-based, or both be server-based.  If their authorities are
+     * defined and are registry-based, then they must be equal.  If their
+     * authorities are defined and are server-based, then their hosts must be
+     * equal without regard to case, their port numbers must be equal, and
+     * their user-information components must be equal.
+     *
+     * <p> When testing the user-information, path, query, fragment, authority,
+     * or scheme-specific parts of two URIs for equality, the raw forms rather
+     * than the encoded forms of these components are compared and the
+     * hexadecimal digits of escaped octets are compared without regard to
+     * case.
+     *
+     * <p> This method satisfies the general contract of the {@link
+     * java.lang.Object#equals(Object) Object.equals} method. </p>
+     *
+     * @param   ob   The object to which this object is to be compared
+     *
+     * @return  {@code true} if, and only if, the given object is a URI that
+     *          is identical to this URI
+     */
+    public boolean equals(Object ob) {
+        if (ob == this)
+            return true;
+        if (!(ob instanceof URI))
+            return false;
+        URI that = (URI)ob;
+        if (this.isOpaque() != that.isOpaque()) return false;
+        if (!equalIgnoringCase(this.scheme, that.scheme)) return false;
+        if (!equal(this.fragment, that.fragment)) return false;
+
+        // Opaque
+        if (this.isOpaque())
+            return equal(this.schemeSpecificPart, that.schemeSpecificPart);
+
+        // Hierarchical
+        if (!equal(this.path, that.path)) return false;
+        if (!equal(this.query, that.query)) return false;
+
+        // Authorities
+        if (this.authority == that.authority) return true;
+        if (this.host != null) {
+            // Server-based
+            if (!equal(this.userInfo, that.userInfo)) return false;
+            if (!equalIgnoringCase(this.host, that.host)) return false;
+            if (this.port != that.port) return false;
+        } else if (this.authority != null) {
+            // Registry-based
+            if (!equal(this.authority, that.authority)) return false;
+        } else if (this.authority != that.authority) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a hash-code value for this URI.  The hash code is based upon all
+     * of the URI's components, and satisfies the general contract of the
+     * {@link java.lang.Object#hashCode() Object.hashCode} method.
+     *
+     * @return  A hash-code value for this URI
+     */
+    public int hashCode() {
+        if (hash != 0)
+            return hash;
+        int h = hashIgnoringCase(0, scheme);
+        h = hash(h, fragment);
+        if (isOpaque()) {
+            h = hash(h, schemeSpecificPart);
+        } else {
+            h = hash(h, path);
+            h = hash(h, query);
+            if (host != null) {
+                h = hash(h, userInfo);
+                h = hashIgnoringCase(h, host);
+                h += 1949 * port;
+            } else {
+                h = hash(h, authority);
+            }
+        }
+        hash = h;
+        return h;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Compares this URI to another object, which must be a URI.
+     *
+     * <p> When comparing corresponding components of two URIs, if one
+     * component is undefined but the other is defined then the first is
+     * considered to be less than the second.  Unless otherwise noted, string
+     * components are ordered according to their natural, case-sensitive
+     * ordering as defined by the {@link java.lang.String#compareTo(Object)
+     * String.compareTo} method.  String components that are subject to
+     * encoding are compared by comparing their raw forms rather than their
+     * encoded forms.
+     *
+     * <p> The ordering of URIs is defined as follows: </p>
+     *
+     * <ul>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Two URIs with different schemes are ordered according the
+     *   ordering of their schemes, without regard to case. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> A hierarchical URI is considered to be less than an opaque URI
+     *   with an identical scheme. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Two opaque URIs with identical schemes are ordered according
+     *   to the ordering of their scheme-specific parts. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Two opaque URIs with identical schemes and scheme-specific
+     *   parts are ordered according to the ordering of their
+     *   fragments. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Two hierarchical URIs with identical schemes are ordered
+     *   according to the ordering of their authority components: </p>
+     *
+     *   <ul>
+     *
+     *     <li><p> If both authority components are server-based then the URIs
+     *     are ordered according to their user-information components; if these
+     *     components are identical then the URIs are ordered according to the
+     *     ordering of their hosts, without regard to case; if the hosts are
+     *     identical then the URIs are ordered according to the ordering of
+     *     their ports. </p></li>
+     *
+     *     <li><p> If one or both authority components are registry-based then
+     *     the URIs are ordered according to the ordering of their authority
+     *     components. </p></li>
+     *
+     *   </ul></li>
+     *
+     *   <li><p> Finally, two hierarchical URIs with identical schemes and
+     *   authority components are ordered according to the ordering of their
+     *   paths; if their paths are identical then they are ordered according to
+     *   the ordering of their queries; if the queries are identical then they
+     *   are ordered according to the order of their fragments. </p></li>
+     *
+     * </ul>
+     *
+     * <p> This method satisfies the general contract of the {@link
+     * java.lang.Comparable#compareTo(Object) Comparable.compareTo}
+     * method. </p>
+     *
+     * @param   that
+     *          The object to which this URI is to be compared
+     *
+     * @return  A negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as this URI is
+     *          less than, equal to, or greater than the given URI
+     *
+     * @throws  ClassCastException
+     *          If the given object is not a URI
+     */
+    public int compareTo(URI that) {
+        int c;
+
+        if ((c = compareIgnoringCase(this.scheme, that.scheme)) != 0)
+            return c;
+
+        if (this.isOpaque()) {
+            if (that.isOpaque()) {
+                // Both opaque
+                if ((c = compare(this.schemeSpecificPart,
+                                 that.schemeSpecificPart)) != 0)
+                    return c;
+                return compare(this.fragment, that.fragment);
+            }
+            return +1;                  // Opaque > hierarchical
+        } else if (that.isOpaque()) {
+            return -1;                  // Hierarchical < opaque
+        }
+
+        // Hierarchical
+        if ((this.host != null) && (that.host != null)) {
+            // Both server-based
+            if ((c = compare(this.userInfo, that.userInfo)) != 0)
+                return c;
+            if ((c = compareIgnoringCase(this.host, that.host)) != 0)
+                return c;
+            if ((c = this.port - that.port) != 0)
+                return c;
+        } else {
+            // If one or both authorities are registry-based then we simply
+            // compare them in the usual, case-sensitive way.  If one is
+            // registry-based and one is server-based then the strings are
+            // guaranteed to be unequal, hence the comparison will never return
+            // zero and the compareTo and equals methods will remain
+            // consistent.
+            if ((c = compare(this.authority, that.authority)) != 0) return c;
+        }
+
+        if ((c = compare(this.path, that.path)) != 0) return c;
+        if ((c = compare(this.query, that.query)) != 0) return c;
+        return compare(this.fragment, that.fragment);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the content of this URI as a string.
+     *
+     * <p> If this URI was created by invoking one of the constructors in this
+     * class then a string equivalent to the original input string, or to the
+     * string computed from the originally-given components, as appropriate, is
+     * returned.  Otherwise this URI was created by normalization, resolution,
+     * or relativization, and so a string is constructed from this URI's
+     * components according to the rules specified in <a
+     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,
+     * section&nbsp;5.2, step&nbsp;7. </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The string form of this URI
+     */
+    public String toString() {
+        defineString();
+        return string;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the content of this URI as a US-ASCII string.
+     *
+     * <p> If this URI does not contain any characters in the <i>other</i>
+     * category then an invocation of this method will return the same value as
+     * an invocation of the {@link #toString() toString} method.  Otherwise
+     * this method works as if by invoking that method and then <a
+     * href="#encode">encoding</a> the result.  </p>
+     *
+     * @return  The string form of this URI, encoded as needed
+     *          so that it only contains characters in the US-ASCII
+     *          charset
+     */
+    public String toASCIIString() {
+        defineString();
+        return encode(string);
+    }
+
+
+    // -- Serialization support --
+
+    /**
+     * Saves the content of this URI to the given serial stream.
+     *
+     * <p> The only serializable field of a URI instance is its {@code string}
+     * field.  That field is given a value, if it does not have one already,
+     * and then the {@link java.io.ObjectOutputStream#defaultWriteObject()}
+     * method of the given object-output stream is invoked. </p>
+     *
+     * @param  os  The object-output stream to which this object
+     *             is to be written
+     */
+    private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream os)
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        defineString();
+        os.defaultWriteObject();        // Writes the string field only
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reconstitutes a URI from the given serial stream.
+     *
+     * <p> The {@link java.io.ObjectInputStream#defaultReadObject()} method is
+     * invoked to read the value of the {@code string} field.  The result is
+     * then parsed in the usual way.
+     *
+     * @param  is  The object-input stream from which this object
+     *             is being read
+     */
+    private void readObject(ObjectInputStream is)
+        throws ClassNotFoundException, IOException
+    {
+        port = -1;                      // Argh
+        is.defaultReadObject();
+        try {
+            new Parser(string).parse(false);
+        } catch (URISyntaxException x) {
+            IOException y = new InvalidObjectException("Invalid URI");
+            y.initCause(x);
+            throw y;
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    // -- End of public methods --
+
+
+    // -- Utility methods for string-field comparison and hashing --
+
+    // These methods return appropriate values for null string arguments,
+    // thereby simplifying the equals, hashCode, and compareTo methods.
+    //
+    // The case-ignoring methods should only be applied to strings whose
+    // characters are all known to be US-ASCII.  Because of this restriction,
+    // these methods are faster than the similar methods in the String class.
+
+    // US-ASCII only
+    private static int toLower(char c) {
+        if ((c >= 'A') && (c <= 'Z'))
+            return c + ('a' - 'A');
+        return c;
+    }
+
+    // US-ASCII only
+    private static int toUpper(char c) {
+        if ((c >= 'a') && (c <= 'z'))
+            return c - ('a' - 'A');
+        return c;
+    }
+
+    private static boolean equal(String s, String t) {
+        if (s == t) return true;
+        if ((s != null) && (t != null)) {
+            if (s.length() != t.length())
+                return false;
+            if (s.indexOf('%') < 0)
+                return s.equals(t);
+            int n = s.length();
+            for (int i = 0; i < n;) {
+                char c = s.charAt(i);
+                char d = t.charAt(i);
+                if (c != '%') {
+                    if (c != d)
+                        return false;
+                    i++;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (d != '%')
+                    return false;
+                i++;
+                if (toLower(s.charAt(i)) != toLower(t.charAt(i)))
+                    return false;
+                i++;
+                if (toLower(s.charAt(i)) != toLower(t.charAt(i)))
+                    return false;
+                i++;
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // US-ASCII only
+    private static boolean equalIgnoringCase(String s, String t) {
+        if (s == t) return true;
+        if ((s != null) && (t != null)) {
+            int n = s.length();
+            if (t.length() != n)
+                return false;
+            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+                if (toLower(s.charAt(i)) != toLower(t.charAt(i)))
+                    return false;
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private static int hash(int hash, String s) {
+        if (s == null) return hash;
+        return s.indexOf('%') < 0 ? hash * 127 + s.hashCode()
+                                  : normalizedHash(hash, s);
+    }
+
+
+    private static int normalizedHash(int hash, String s) {
+        int h = 0;
+        for (int index = 0; index < s.length(); index++) {
+            char ch = s.charAt(index);
+            h = 31 * h + ch;
+            if (ch == '%') {
+                /*
+                 * Process the next two encoded characters
+                 */
+                for (int i = index + 1; i < index + 3; i++)
+                    h = 31 * h + toUpper(s.charAt(i));
+                index += 2;
+            }
+        }
+        return hash * 127 + h;
+    }
+
+    // US-ASCII only
+    private static int hashIgnoringCase(int hash, String s) {
+        if (s == null) return hash;
+        int h = hash;
+        int n = s.length();
+        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
+            h = 31 * h + toLower(s.charAt(i));
+        return h;
+    }
+
+    private static int compare(String s, String t) {
+        if (s == t) return 0;
+        if (s != null) {
+            if (t != null)
+                return s.compareTo(t);
+            else
+                return +1;
+        } else {
+            return -1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // US-ASCII only
+    private static int compareIgnoringCase(String s, String t) {
+        if (s == t) return 0;
+        if (s != null) {
+            if (t != null) {
+                int sn = s.length();
+                int tn = t.length();
+                int n = sn < tn ? sn : tn;
+                for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+                    int c = toLower(s.charAt(i)) - toLower(t.charAt(i));
+                    if (c != 0)
+                        return c;
+                }
+                return sn - tn;
+            }
+            return +1;
+        } else {
+            return -1;
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    // -- String construction --
+
+    // If a scheme is given then the path, if given, must be absolute
+    //
+    private static void checkPath(String s, String scheme, String path)
+        throws URISyntaxException
+    {
+        if (scheme != null) {
+            if ((path != null)
+                && ((path.length() > 0) && (path.charAt(0) != '/')))
+                throw new URISyntaxException(s,
+                                             "Relative path in absolute URI");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void appendAuthority(StringBuffer sb,
+                                 String authority,
+                                 String userInfo,
+                                 String host,
+                                 int port)
+    {
+        if (host != null) {
+            sb.append("//");
+            if (userInfo != null) {
+                sb.append(quote(userInfo, L_USERINFO, H_USERINFO));
+                sb.append('@');
+            }
+            boolean needBrackets = ((host.indexOf(':') >= 0)
+                                    && !host.startsWith("[")
+                                    && !host.endsWith("]"));
+            if (needBrackets) sb.append('[');
+            sb.append(host);
+            if (needBrackets) sb.append(']');
+            if (port != -1) {
+                sb.append(':');
+                sb.append(port);
+            }
+        } else if (authority != null) {
+            sb.append("//");
+            if (authority.startsWith("[")) {
+                // authority should (but may not) contain an embedded IPv6 address
+                int end = authority.indexOf(']');
+                String doquote = authority, dontquote = "";
+                if (end != -1 && authority.indexOf(':') != -1) {
+                    // the authority contains an IPv6 address
+                    if (end == authority.length()) {
+                        dontquote = authority;
+                        doquote = "";
+                    } else {
+                        dontquote = authority.substring(0 , end + 1);
+                        doquote = authority.substring(end + 1);
+                    }
+                }
+                sb.append(dontquote);
+                sb.append(quote(doquote,
+                            L_REG_NAME | L_SERVER,
+                            H_REG_NAME | H_SERVER));
+            } else {
+                sb.append(quote(authority,
+                            L_REG_NAME | L_SERVER,
+                            H_REG_NAME | H_SERVER));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void appendSchemeSpecificPart(StringBuffer sb,
+                                          String opaquePart,
+                                          String authority,
+                                          String userInfo,
+                                          String host,
+                                          int port,
+                                          String path,
+                                          String query)
+    {
+        if (opaquePart != null) {
+            /* check if SSP begins with an IPv6 address
+             * because we must not quote a literal IPv6 address
+             */
+            if (opaquePart.startsWith("//[")) {
+                int end =  opaquePart.indexOf(']');
+                if (end != -1 && opaquePart.indexOf(':')!=-1) {
+                    String doquote, dontquote;
+                    if (end == opaquePart.length()) {
+                        dontquote = opaquePart;
+                        doquote = "";
+                    } else {
+                        dontquote = opaquePart.substring(0,end+1);
+                        doquote = opaquePart.substring(end+1);
+                    }
+                    sb.append (dontquote);
+                    sb.append(quote(doquote, L_URIC, H_URIC));
+                }
+            } else {
+                sb.append(quote(opaquePart, L_URIC, H_URIC));
+            }
+        } else {
+            appendAuthority(sb, authority, userInfo, host, port);
+            if (path != null)
+                sb.append(quote(path, L_PATH, H_PATH));
+            if (query != null) {
+                sb.append('?');
+                sb.append(quote(query, L_URIC, H_URIC));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void appendFragment(StringBuffer sb, String fragment) {
+        if (fragment != null) {
+            sb.append('#');
+            sb.append(quote(fragment, L_URIC, H_URIC));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String toString(String scheme,
+                            String opaquePart,
+                            String authority,
+                            String userInfo,
+                            String host,
+                            int port,
+                            String path,
+                            String query,
+                            String fragment)
+    {
+        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+        if (scheme != null) {
+            sb.append(scheme);
+            sb.append(':');
+        }
+        appendSchemeSpecificPart(sb, opaquePart,
+                                 authority, userInfo, host, port,
+                                 path, query);
+        appendFragment(sb, fragment);
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    private void defineSchemeSpecificPart() {
+        if (schemeSpecificPart != null) return;
+        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+        appendSchemeSpecificPart(sb, null, getAuthority(), getUserInfo(),
+                                 host, port, getPath(), getQuery());
+        if (sb.length() == 0) return;
+        schemeSpecificPart = sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    private void defineString() {
+        if (string != null) return;
+
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        if (scheme != null) {
+            sb.append(scheme);
+            sb.append(':');
+        }
+        if (isOpaque()) {
+            sb.append(schemeSpecificPart);
+        } else {
+            if (host != null) {
+                sb.append("//");
+                if (userInfo != null) {
+                    sb.append(userInfo);
+                    sb.append('@');
+                }
+                boolean needBrackets = ((host.indexOf(':') >= 0)
+                                    && !host.startsWith("[")
+                                    && !host.endsWith("]"));
+                if (needBrackets) sb.append('[');
+                sb.append(host);
+                if (needBrackets) sb.append(']');
+                if (port != -1) {
+                    sb.append(':');
+                    sb.append(port);
+                }
+            } else if (authority != null) {
+                sb.append("//");
+                sb.append(authority);
+            }
+            if (path != null)
+                sb.append(path);
+            if (query != null) {
+                sb.append('?');
+                sb.append(query);
+            }
+        }
+        if (fragment != null) {
+            sb.append('#');
+            sb.append(fragment);
+        }
+        string = sb.toString();
+    }
+
+
+    // -- Normalization, resolution, and relativization --
+
+    // RFC2396 5.2 (6)
+    private static String resolvePath(String base, String child,
+                                      boolean absolute)
+    {
+        int i = base.lastIndexOf('/');
+        int cn = child.length();
+        String path = "";
+
+        if (cn == 0) {
+            // 5.2 (6a)
+            if (i >= 0)
+                path = base.substring(0, i + 1);
+        } else {
+            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(base.length() + cn);
+            // 5.2 (6a)
+            if (i >= 0)
+                sb.append(base.substring(0, i + 1));
+            // 5.2 (6b)
+            sb.append(child);
+            path = sb.toString();
+        }
+
+        // 5.2 (6c-f)
+        String np = normalize(path);
+
+        // 5.2 (6g): If the result is absolute but the path begins with "../",
+        // then we simply leave the path as-is
+
+        return np;
+    }
+
+    // RFC2396 5.2
+    private static URI resolve(URI base, URI child) {
+        // check if child if opaque first so that NPE is thrown
+        // if child is null.
+        if (child.isOpaque() || base.isOpaque())
+            return child;
+
+        // 5.2 (2): Reference to current document (lone fragment)
+        if ((child.scheme == null) && (child.authority == null)
+            && child.path.equals("") && (child.fragment != null)
+            && (child.query == null)) {
+            if ((base.fragment != null)
+                && child.fragment.equals(base.fragment)) {
+                return base;
+            }
+            URI ru = new URI();
+            ru.scheme = base.scheme;
+            ru.authority = base.authority;
+            ru.userInfo = base.userInfo;
+            ru.host = base.host;
+            ru.port = base.port;
+            ru.path = base.path;
+            ru.fragment = child.fragment;
+            ru.query = base.query;
+            return ru;
+        }
+
+        // 5.2 (3): Child is absolute
+        if (child.scheme != null)
+            return child;
+
+        URI ru = new URI();             // Resolved URI
+        ru.scheme = base.scheme;
+        ru.query = child.query;
+        ru.fragment = child.fragment;
+
+        // 5.2 (4): Authority
+        if (child.authority == null) {
+            ru.authority = base.authority;
+            ru.host = base.host;
+            ru.userInfo = base.userInfo;
+            ru.port = base.port;
+
+            String cp = (child.path == null) ? "" : child.path;
+            if ((cp.length() > 0) && (cp.charAt(0) == '/')) {
+                // 5.2 (5): Child path is absolute
+                ru.path = child.path;
+            } else {
+                // 5.2 (6): Resolve relative path
+                ru.path = resolvePath(base.path, cp, base.isAbsolute());
+            }
+        } else {
+            ru.authority = child.authority;
+            ru.host = child.host;
+            ru.userInfo = child.userInfo;
+            ru.host = child.host;
+            ru.port = child.port;
+            ru.path = child.path;
+        }
+
+        // 5.2 (7): Recombine (nothing to do here)
+        return ru;
+    }
+
+    // If the given URI's path is normal then return the URI;
+    // o.w., return a new URI containing the normalized path.
+    //
+    private static URI normalize(URI u) {
+        if (u.isOpaque() || (u.path == null) || (u.path.length() == 0))
+            return u;
+
+        String np = normalize(u.path);
+        if (np == u.path)
+            return u;
+
+        URI v = new URI();
+        v.scheme = u.scheme;
+        v.fragment = u.fragment;
+        v.authority = u.authority;
+        v.userInfo = u.userInfo;
+        v.host = u.host;
+        v.port = u.port;
+        v.path = np;
+        v.query = u.query;
+        return v;
+    }
+
+    // If both URIs are hierarchical, their scheme and authority components are
+    // identical, and the base path is a prefix of the child's path, then
+    // return a relative URI that, when resolved against the base, yields the
+    // child; otherwise, return the child.
+    //
+    private static URI relativize(URI base, URI child) {
+        // check if child if opaque first so that NPE is thrown
+        // if child is null.
+        if (child.isOpaque() || base.isOpaque())
+            return child;
+        if (!equalIgnoringCase(base.scheme, child.scheme)
+            || !equal(base.authority, child.authority))
+            return child;
+
+        String bp = normalize(base.path);
+        String cp = normalize(child.path);
+        if (!bp.equals(cp)) {
+            if (!bp.endsWith("/"))
+                bp = bp + "/";
+            if (!cp.startsWith(bp))
+                return child;
+        }
+
+        URI v = new URI();
+        v.path = cp.substring(bp.length());
+        v.query = child.query;
+        v.fragment = child.fragment;
+        return v;
+    }
+
+
+
+    // -- Path normalization --
+
+    // The following algorithm for path normalization avoids the creation of a
+    // string object for each segment, as well as the use of a string buffer to
+    // compute the final result, by using a single char array and editing it in
+    // place.  The array is first split into segments, replacing each slash
+    // with '\0' and creating a segment-index array, each element of which is
+    // the index of the first char in the corresponding segment.  We then walk
+    // through both arrays, removing ".", "..", and other segments as necessary
+    // by setting their entries in the index array to -1.  Finally, the two
+    // arrays are used to rejoin the segments and compute the final result.
+    //
+    // This code is based upon src/solaris/native/java/io/canonicalize_md.c
+
+
+    // Check the given path to see if it might need normalization.  A path
+    // might need normalization if it contains duplicate slashes, a "."
+    // segment, or a ".." segment.  Return -1 if no further normalization is
+    // possible, otherwise return the number of segments found.
+    //
+    // This method takes a string argument rather than a char array so that
+    // this test can be performed without invoking path.toCharArray().
+    //
+    static private int needsNormalization(String path) {
+        boolean normal = true;
+        int ns = 0;                     // Number of segments
+        int end = path.length() - 1;    // Index of last char in path
+        int p = 0;                      // Index of next char in path
+
+        // Skip initial slashes
+        while (p <= end) {
+            if (path.charAt(p) != '/') break;
+            p++;
+        }
+        if (p > 1) normal = false;
+
+        // Scan segments
+        while (p <= end) {
+
+            // Looking at "." or ".." ?
+            if ((path.charAt(p) == '.')
+                && ((p == end)
+                    || ((path.charAt(p + 1) == '/')
+                        || ((path.charAt(p + 1) == '.')
+                            && ((p + 1 == end)
+                                || (path.charAt(p + 2) == '/')))))) {
+                normal = false;
+            }
+            ns++;
+
+            // Find beginning of next segment
+            while (p <= end) {
+                if (path.charAt(p++) != '/')
+                    continue;
+
+                // Skip redundant slashes
+                while (p <= end) {
+                    if (path.charAt(p) != '/') break;
+                    normal = false;
+                    p++;
+                }
+
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return normal ? -1 : ns;
+    }
+
+
+    // Split the given path into segments, replacing slashes with nulls and
+    // filling in the given segment-index array.
+    //
+    // Preconditions:
+    //   segs.length == Number of segments in path
+    //
+    // Postconditions:
+    //   All slashes in path replaced by '\0'
+    //   segs[i] == Index of first char in segment i (0 <= i < segs.length)
+    //
+    static private void split(char[] path, int[] segs) {
+        int end = path.length - 1;      // Index of last char in path
+        int p = 0;                      // Index of next char in path
+        int i = 0;                      // Index of current segment
+
+        // Skip initial slashes
+        while (p <= end) {
+            if (path[p] != '/') break;
+            path[p] = '\0';
+            p++;
+        }
+
+        while (p <= end) {
+
+            // Note start of segment
+            segs[i++] = p++;
+
+            // Find beginning of next segment
+            while (p <= end) {
+                if (path[p++] != '/')
+                    continue;
+                path[p - 1] = '\0';
+
+                // Skip redundant slashes
+                while (p <= end) {
+                    if (path[p] != '/') break;
+                    path[p++] = '\0';
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (i != segs.length)
+            throw new InternalError();  // ASSERT
+    }
+
+
+    // Join the segments in the given path according to the given segment-index
+    // array, ignoring those segments whose index entries have been set to -1,
+    // and inserting slashes as needed.  Return the length of the resulting
+    // path.
+    //
+    // Preconditions:
+    //   segs[i] == -1 implies segment i is to be ignored
+    //   path computed by split, as above, with '\0' having replaced '/'
+    //
+    // Postconditions:
+    //   path[0] .. path[return value] == Resulting path
+    //
+    static private int join(char[] path, int[] segs) {
+        int ns = segs.length;           // Number of segments
+        int end = path.length - 1;      // Index of last char in path
+        int p = 0;                      // Index of next path char to write
+
+        if (path[p] == '\0') {
+            // Restore initial slash for absolute paths
+            path[p++] = '/';
+        }
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < ns; i++) {
+            int q = segs[i];            // Current segment
+            if (q == -1)
+                // Ignore this segment
+                continue;
+
+            if (p == q) {
+                // We're already at this segment, so just skip to its end
+                while ((p <= end) && (path[p] != '\0'))
+                    p++;
+                if (p <= end) {
+                    // Preserve trailing slash
+                    path[p++] = '/';
+                }
+            } else if (p < q) {
+                // Copy q down to p
+                while ((q <= end) && (path[q] != '\0'))
+                    path[p++] = path[q++];
+                if (q <= end) {
+                    // Preserve trailing slash
+                    path[p++] = '/';
+                }
+            } else
+                throw new InternalError(); // ASSERT false
+        }
+
+        return p;
+    }
+
+
+    // Remove "." segments from the given path, and remove segment pairs
+    // consisting of a non-".." segment followed by a ".." segment.
+    //
+    private static void removeDots(char[] path, int[] segs) {
+        int ns = segs.length;
+        int end = path.length - 1;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < ns; i++) {
+            int dots = 0;               // Number of dots found (0, 1, or 2)
+
+            // Find next occurrence of "." or ".."
+            do {
+                int p = segs[i];
+                if (path[p] == '.') {
+                    if (p == end) {
+                        dots = 1;
+                        break;
+                    } else if (path[p + 1] == '\0') {
+                        dots = 1;
+                        break;
+                    } else if ((path[p + 1] == '.')
+                               && ((p + 1 == end)
+                                   || (path[p + 2] == '\0'))) {
+                        dots = 2;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+                i++;
+            } while (i < ns);
+            if ((i > ns) || (dots == 0))
+                break;
+
+            if (dots == 1) {
+                // Remove this occurrence of "."
+                segs[i] = -1;
+            } else {
+                // If there is a preceding non-".." segment, remove both that
+                // segment and this occurrence of ".."; otherwise, leave this
+                // ".." segment as-is.
+                int j;
+                for (j = i - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
+                    if (segs[j] != -1) break;
+                }
+                if (j >= 0) {
+                    int q = segs[j];
+                    if (!((path[q] == '.')
+                          && (path[q + 1] == '.')
+                          && (path[q + 2] == '\0'))) {
+                        segs[i] = -1;
+                        segs[j] = -1;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    // DEVIATION: If the normalized path is relative, and if the first
+    // segment could be parsed as a scheme name, then prepend a "." segment
+    //
+    private static void maybeAddLeadingDot(char[] path, int[] segs) {
+
+        if (path[0] == '\0')
+            // The path is absolute
+            return;
+
+        int ns = segs.length;
+        int f = 0;                      // Index of first segment
+        while (f < ns) {
+            if (segs[f] >= 0)
+                break;
+            f++;
+        }
+        if ((f >= ns) || (f == 0))
+            // The path is empty, or else the original first segment survived,
+            // in which case we already know that no leading "." is needed
+            return;
+
+        int p = segs[f];
+        while ((p < path.length) && (path[p] != ':') && (path[p] != '\0')) p++;
+        if (p >= path.length || path[p] == '\0')
+            // No colon in first segment, so no "." needed
+            return;
+
+        // At this point we know that the first segment is unused,
+        // hence we can insert a "." segment at that position
+        path[0] = '.';
+        path[1] = '\0';
+        segs[0] = 0;
+    }
+
+
+    // Normalize the given path string.  A normal path string has no empty
+    // segments (i.e., occurrences of "//"), no segments equal to ".", and no
+    // segments equal to ".." that are preceded by a segment not equal to "..".
+    // In contrast to Unix-style pathname normalization, for URI paths we
+    // always retain trailing slashes.
+    //
+    private static String normalize(String ps) {
+
+        // Does this path need normalization?
+        int ns = needsNormalization(ps);        // Number of segments
+        if (ns < 0)
+            // Nope -- just return it
+            return ps;
+
+        char[] path = ps.toCharArray();         // Path in char-array form
+
+        // Split path into segments
+        int[] segs = new int[ns];               // Segment-index array
+        split(path, segs);
+
+        // Remove dots
+        removeDots(path, segs);
+
+        // Prevent scheme-name confusion
+        maybeAddLeadingDot(path, segs);
+
+        // Join the remaining segments and return the result
+        String s = new String(path, 0, join(path, segs));
+        if (s.equals(ps)) {
+            // string was already normalized
+            return ps;
+        }
+        return s;
+    }
+
+
+
+    // -- Character classes for parsing --
+
+    // RFC2396 precisely specifies which characters in the US-ASCII charset are
+    // permissible in the various components of a URI reference.  We here
+    // define a set of mask pairs to aid in enforcing these restrictions.  Each
+    // mask pair consists of two longs, a low mask and a high mask.  Taken
+    // together they represent a 128-bit mask, where bit i is set iff the
+    // character with value i is permitted.
+    //
+    // This approach is more efficient than sequentially searching arrays of
+    // permitted characters.  It could be made still more efficient by
+    // precompiling the mask information so that a character's presence in a
+    // given mask could be determined by a single table lookup.
+
+    // Compute the low-order mask for the characters in the given string
+    private static long lowMask(String chars) {
+        int n = chars.length();
+        long m = 0;
+        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+            char c = chars.charAt(i);
+            if (c < 64)
+                m |= (1L << c);
+        }
+        return m;
+    }
+
+    // Compute the high-order mask for the characters in the given string
+    private static long highMask(String chars) {
+        int n = chars.length();
+        long m = 0;
+        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+            char c = chars.charAt(i);
+            if ((c >= 64) && (c < 128))
+                m |= (1L << (c - 64));
+        }
+        return m;
+    }
+
+    // Compute a low-order mask for the characters
+    // between first and last, inclusive
+    private static long lowMask(char first, char last) {
+        long m = 0;
+        int f = Math.max(Math.min(first, 63), 0);
+        int l = Math.max(Math.min(last, 63), 0);
+        for (int i = f; i <= l; i++)
+            m |= 1L << i;
+        return m;
+    }
+
+    // Compute a high-order mask for the characters
+    // between first and last, inclusive
+    private static long highMask(char first, char last) {
+        long m = 0;
+        int f = Math.max(Math.min(first, 127), 64) - 64;
+        int l = Math.max(Math.min(last, 127), 64) - 64;
+        for (int i = f; i <= l; i++)
+            m |= 1L << i;
+        return m;
+    }
+
+    // Tell whether the given character is permitted by the given mask pair
+    private static boolean match(char c, long lowMask, long highMask) {
+        if (c == 0) // 0 doesn't have a slot in the mask. So, it never matches.
+            return false;
+        if (c < 64)
+            return ((1L << c) & lowMask) != 0;
+        if (c < 128)
+            return ((1L << (c - 64)) & highMask) != 0;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // Character-class masks, in reverse order from RFC2396 because
+    // initializers for static fields cannot make forward references.
+
+    // digit    = "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" |
+    //            "8" | "9"
+    private static final long L_DIGIT = lowMask('0', '9');
+    private static final long H_DIGIT = 0L;
+
+    // upalpha  = "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" | "G" | "H" | "I" |
+    //            "J" | "K" | "L" | "M" | "N" | "O" | "P" | "Q" | "R" |
+    //            "S" | "T" | "U" | "V" | "W" | "X" | "Y" | "Z"
+    private static final long L_UPALPHA = 0L;
+    private static final long H_UPALPHA = highMask('A', 'Z');
+
+    // lowalpha = "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" | "g" | "h" | "i" |
+    //            "j" | "k" | "l" | "m" | "n" | "o" | "p" | "q" | "r" |
+    //            "s" | "t" | "u" | "v" | "w" | "x" | "y" | "z"
+    private static final long L_LOWALPHA = 0L;
+    private static final long H_LOWALPHA = highMask('a', 'z');
+
+    // alpha         = lowalpha | upalpha
+    private static final long L_ALPHA = L_LOWALPHA | L_UPALPHA;
+    private static final long H_ALPHA = H_LOWALPHA | H_UPALPHA;
+
+    // alphanum      = alpha | digit
+    private static final long L_ALPHANUM = L_DIGIT | L_ALPHA;
+    private static final long H_ALPHANUM = H_DIGIT | H_ALPHA;
+
+    // hex           = digit | "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" |
+    //                         "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f"
+    private static final long L_HEX = L_DIGIT;
+    private static final long H_HEX = highMask('A', 'F') | highMask('a', 'f');
+
+    // mark          = "-" | "_" | "." | "!" | "~" | "*" | "'" |
+    //                 "(" | ")"
+    private static final long L_MARK = lowMask("-_.!~*'()");
+    private static final long H_MARK = highMask("-_.!~*'()");
+
+    // unreserved    = alphanum | mark
+    private static final long L_UNRESERVED = L_ALPHANUM | L_MARK;
+    private static final long H_UNRESERVED = H_ALPHANUM | H_MARK;
+
+    // reserved      = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" |
+    //                 "$" | "," | "[" | "]"
+    // Added per RFC2732: "[", "]"
+    private static final long L_RESERVED = lowMask(";/?:@&=+$,[]");
+    private static final long H_RESERVED = highMask(";/?:@&=+$,[]");
+
+    // The zero'th bit is used to indicate that escape pairs and non-US-ASCII
+    // characters are allowed; this is handled by the scanEscape method below.
+    private static final long L_ESCAPED = 1L;
+    private static final long H_ESCAPED = 0L;
+
+    // uric          = reserved | unreserved | escaped
+    private static final long L_URIC = L_RESERVED | L_UNRESERVED | L_ESCAPED;
+    private static final long H_URIC = H_RESERVED | H_UNRESERVED | H_ESCAPED;
+
+    // pchar         = unreserved | escaped |
+    //                 ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | ","
+    private static final long L_PCHAR
+        = L_UNRESERVED | L_ESCAPED | lowMask(":@&=+$,");
+    private static final long H_PCHAR
+        = H_UNRESERVED | H_ESCAPED | highMask(":@&=+$,");
+
+    // All valid path characters
+    private static final long L_PATH = L_PCHAR | lowMask(";/");
+    private static final long H_PATH = H_PCHAR | highMask(";/");
+
+    // Dash, for use in domainlabel and toplabel
+    private static final long L_DASH = lowMask("-");
+    private static final long H_DASH = highMask("-");
+
+    // Dot, for use in hostnames
+    private static final long L_DOT = lowMask(".");
+    private static final long H_DOT = highMask(".");
+
+    // userinfo      = *( unreserved | escaped |
+    //                    ";" | ":" | "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | "," )
+    private static final long L_USERINFO
+        = L_UNRESERVED | L_ESCAPED | lowMask(";:&=+$,");
+    private static final long H_USERINFO
+        = H_UNRESERVED | H_ESCAPED | highMask(";:&=+$,");
+
+    // reg_name      = 1*( unreserved | escaped | "$" | "," |
+    //                     ";" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" )
+    private static final long L_REG_NAME
+        = L_UNRESERVED | L_ESCAPED | lowMask("$,;:@&=+");
+    private static final long H_REG_NAME
+        = H_UNRESERVED | H_ESCAPED | highMask("$,;:@&=+");
+
+    // All valid characters for server-based authorities
+    private static final long L_SERVER
+        = L_USERINFO | L_ALPHANUM | L_DASH | lowMask(".:@[]");
+    private static final long H_SERVER
+        = H_USERINFO | H_ALPHANUM | H_DASH | highMask(".:@[]");
+
+    // Special case of server authority that represents an IPv6 address
+    // In this case, a % does not signify an escape sequence
+    private static final long L_SERVER_PERCENT
+        = L_SERVER | lowMask("%");
+    private static final long H_SERVER_PERCENT
+        = H_SERVER | highMask("%");
+    private static final long L_LEFT_BRACKET = lowMask("[");
+    private static final long H_LEFT_BRACKET = highMask("[");
+
+    // scheme        = alpha *( alpha | digit | "+" | "-" | "." )
+    private static final long L_SCHEME = L_ALPHA | L_DIGIT | lowMask("+-.");
+    private static final long H_SCHEME = H_ALPHA | H_DIGIT | highMask("+-.");
+
+    // uric_no_slash = unreserved | escaped | ";" | "?" | ":" | "@" |
+    //                 "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | ","
+    private static final long L_URIC_NO_SLASH
+        = L_UNRESERVED | L_ESCAPED | lowMask(";?:@&=+$,");
+    private static final long H_URIC_NO_SLASH
+        = H_UNRESERVED | H_ESCAPED | highMask(";?:@&=+$,");
+
+
+    // -- Escaping and encoding --
+
+    private final static char[] hexDigits = {
+        '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7',
+        '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'
+    };
+
+    private static void appendEscape(StringBuffer sb, byte b) {
+        sb.append('%');
+        sb.append(hexDigits[(b >> 4) & 0x0f]);
+        sb.append(hexDigits[(b >> 0) & 0x0f]);
+    }
+
+    private static void appendEncoded(StringBuffer sb, char c) {
+        ByteBuffer bb = null;
+        try {
+            bb = ThreadLocalCoders.encoderFor("UTF-8")
+                .encode(CharBuffer.wrap("" + c));
+        } catch (CharacterCodingException x) {
+            assert false;
+        }
+        while (bb.hasRemaining()) {
+            int b = bb.get() & 0xff;
+            if (b >= 0x80)
+                appendEscape(sb, (byte)b);
+            else
+                sb.append((char)b);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Quote any characters in s that are not permitted
+    // by the given mask pair
+    //
+    private static String quote(String s, long lowMask, long highMask) {
+        int n = s.length();
+        StringBuffer sb = null;
+        boolean allowNonASCII = ((lowMask & L_ESCAPED) != 0);
+        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
+            char c = s.charAt(i);
+            if (c < '\u0080') {
+                if (!match(c, lowMask, highMask)) {
+                    if (sb == null) {
+                        sb = new StringBuffer();
+                        sb.append(s.substring(0, i));
+                    }
+                    appendEscape(sb, (byte)c);
+                } else {
+                    if (sb != null)
+                        sb.append(c);
+                }
+            } else if (allowNonASCII
+                       && (Character.isSpaceChar(c)
+                           || Character.isISOControl(c))) {
+                if (sb == null) {
+                    sb = new StringBuffer();
+                    sb.append(s.substring(0, i));
+                }
+                appendEncoded(sb, c);
+            } else {
+                if (sb != null)
+                    sb.append(c);
+            }
+        }
+        return (sb == null) ? s : sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    // Encodes all characters >= \u0080 into escaped, normalized UTF-8 octets,
+    // assuming that s is otherwise legal
+    //
+    private static String encode(String s) {
+        int n = s.length();
+        if (n == 0)
+            return s;
+
+        // First check whether we actually need to encode
+        for (int i = 0;;) {
+            if (s.charAt(i) >= '\u0080')
+                break;
+            if (++i >= n)
+                return s;
+        }
+
+        String ns = Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFC);
+        ByteBuffer bb = null;
+        try {
+            bb = ThreadLocalCoders.encoderFor("UTF-8")
+                .encode(CharBuffer.wrap(ns));
+        } catch (CharacterCodingException x) {
+            assert false;
+        }
+
+        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+        while (bb.hasRemaining()) {
+            int b = bb.get() & 0xff;
+            if (b >= 0x80)
+                appendEscape(sb, (byte)b);
+            else
+                sb.append((char)b);
+        }
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    private static int decode(char c) {
+        if ((c >= '0') && (c <= '9'))
+            return c - '0';
+        if ((c >= 'a') && (c <= 'f'))
+            return c - 'a' + 10;
+        if ((c >= 'A') && (c <= 'F'))
+            return c - 'A' + 10;
+        assert false;
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    private static byte decode(char c1, char c2) {
+        return (byte)(  ((decode(c1) & 0xf) << 4)
+                      | ((decode(c2) & 0xf) << 0));
+    }
+
+    // Evaluates all escapes in s, applying UTF-8 decoding if needed.  Assumes
+    // that escapes are well-formed syntactically, i.e., of the form %XX.  If a
+    // sequence of escaped octets is not valid UTF-8 then the erroneous octets
+    // are replaced with '\uFFFD'.
+    // Exception: any "%" found between "[]" is left alone. It is an IPv6 literal
+    //            with a scope_id
+    //
+    private static String decode(String s) {
+        return decode(s, true);
+    }
+
+    // This method was introduced as a generalization of URI.decode method
+    // to provide a fix for JDK-8037396
+    private static String decode(String s, boolean ignorePercentInBrackets) {
+        if (s == null)
+            return s;
+        int n = s.length();
+        if (n == 0)
+            return s;
+        if (s.indexOf('%') < 0)
+            return s;
+
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(n);
+        ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(n);
+        CharBuffer cb = CharBuffer.allocate(n);
+        CharsetDecoder dec = ThreadLocalCoders.decoderFor("UTF-8")
+                .onMalformedInput(CodingErrorAction.REPLACE)
+                .onUnmappableCharacter(CodingErrorAction.REPLACE);
+
+        // This is not horribly efficient, but it will do for now
+        char c = s.charAt(0);
+        boolean betweenBrackets = false;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < n;) {
+            assert c == s.charAt(i);    // Loop invariant
+            if (c == '[') {
+                betweenBrackets = true;
+            } else if (betweenBrackets && c == ']') {
+                betweenBrackets = false;
+            }
+            if (c != '%' || (betweenBrackets && ignorePercentInBrackets)) {
+                sb.append(c);
+                if (++i >= n)
+                    break;
+                c = s.charAt(i);
+                continue;
+            }
+            bb.clear();
+            int ui = i;
+            for (;;) {
+                assert (n - i >= 2);
+                bb.put(decode(s.charAt(++i), s.charAt(++i)));
+                if (++i >= n)
+                    break;
+                c = s.charAt(i);
+                if (c != '%')
+                    break;
+            }
+            bb.flip();
+            cb.clear();
+            dec.reset();
+            CoderResult cr = dec.decode(bb, cb, true);
+            assert cr.isUnderflow();
+            cr = dec.flush(cb);
+            assert cr.isUnderflow();
+            sb.append(cb.flip().toString());
+        }
+
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+
+    // -- Parsing --
+
+    // For convenience we wrap the input URI string in a new instance of the
+    // following internal class.  This saves always having to pass the input
+    // string as an argument to each internal scan/parse method.
+
+    private class Parser {
+
+        private String input;           // URI input string
+        private boolean requireServerAuthority = false;
+
+        Parser(String s) {
+            input = s;
+            string = s;
+        }
+
+        // -- Methods for throwing URISyntaxException in various ways --
+
+        private void fail(String reason) throws URISyntaxException {
+            throw new URISyntaxException(input, reason);
+        }
+
+        private void fail(String reason, int p) throws URISyntaxException {
+            throw new URISyntaxException(input, reason, p);
+        }
+
+        private void failExpecting(String expected, int p)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            fail("Expected " + expected, p);
+        }
+
+        private void failExpecting(String expected, String prior, int p)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            fail("Expected " + expected + " following " + prior, p);
+        }
+
+
+        // -- Simple access to the input string --
+
+        // Return a substring of the input string
+        //
+        private String substring(int start, int end) {
+            return input.substring(start, end);
+        }
+
+        // Return the char at position p,
+        // assuming that p < input.length()
+        //
+        private char charAt(int p) {
+            return input.charAt(p);
+        }
+
+        // Tells whether start < end and, if so, whether charAt(start) == c
+        //
+        private boolean at(int start, int end, char c) {
+            return (start < end) && (charAt(start) == c);
+        }
+
+        // Tells whether start + s.length() < end and, if so,
+        // whether the chars at the start position match s exactly
+        //
+        private boolean at(int start, int end, String s) {
+            int p = start;
+            int sn = s.length();
+            if (sn > end - p)
+                return false;
+            int i = 0;
+            while (i < sn) {
+                if (charAt(p++) != s.charAt(i)) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                i++;
+            }
+            return (i == sn);
+        }
+
+
+        // -- Scanning --
+
+        // The various scan and parse methods that follow use a uniform
+        // convention of taking the current start position and end index as
+        // their first two arguments.  The start is inclusive while the end is
+        // exclusive, just as in the String class, i.e., a start/end pair
+        // denotes the left-open interval [start, end) of the input string.
+        //
+        // These methods never proceed past the end position.  They may return
+        // -1 to indicate outright failure, but more often they simply return
+        // the position of the first char after the last char scanned.  Thus
+        // a typical idiom is
+        //
+        //     int p = start;
+        //     int q = scan(p, end, ...);
+        //     if (q > p)
+        //         // We scanned something
+        //         ...;
+        //     else if (q == p)
+        //         // We scanned nothing
+        //         ...;
+        //     else if (q == -1)
+        //         // Something went wrong
+        //         ...;
+
+
+        // Scan a specific char: If the char at the given start position is
+        // equal to c, return the index of the next char; otherwise, return the
+        // start position.
+        //
+        private int scan(int start, int end, char c) {
+            if ((start < end) && (charAt(start) == c))
+                return start + 1;
+            return start;
+        }
+
+        // Scan forward from the given start position.  Stop at the first char
+        // in the err string (in which case -1 is returned), or the first char
+        // in the stop string (in which case the index of the preceding char is
+        // returned), or the end of the input string (in which case the length
+        // of the input string is returned).  May return the start position if
+        // nothing matches.
+        //
+        private int scan(int start, int end, String err, String stop) {
+            int p = start;
+            while (p < end) {
+                char c = charAt(p);
+                if (err.indexOf(c) >= 0)
+                    return -1;
+                if (stop.indexOf(c) >= 0)
+                    break;
+                p++;
+            }
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // Scan a potential escape sequence, starting at the given position,
+        // with the given first char (i.e., charAt(start) == c).
+        //
+        // This method assumes that if escapes are allowed then visible
+        // non-US-ASCII chars are also allowed.
+        //
+        private int scanEscape(int start, int n, char first)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            char c = first;
+            if (c == '%') {
+                // Process escape pair
+                if ((p + 3 <= n)
+                    && match(charAt(p + 1), L_HEX, H_HEX)
+                    && match(charAt(p + 2), L_HEX, H_HEX)) {
+                    return p + 3;
+                }
+                fail("Malformed escape pair", p);
+            } else if ((c > 128)
+                       && !Character.isSpaceChar(c)
+                       && !Character.isISOControl(c)) {
+                // Allow unescaped but visible non-US-ASCII chars
+                return p + 1;
+            }
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // Scan chars that match the given mask pair
+        //
+        private int scan(int start, int n, long lowMask, long highMask)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            while (p < n) {
+                char c = charAt(p);
+                if (match(c, lowMask, highMask)) {
+                    p++;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if ((lowMask & L_ESCAPED) != 0) {
+                    int q = scanEscape(p, n, c);
+                    if (q > p) {
+                        p = q;
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // Check that each of the chars in [start, end) matches the given mask
+        //
+        private void checkChars(int start, int end,
+                                long lowMask, long highMask,
+                                String what)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = scan(start, end, lowMask, highMask);
+            if (p < end)
+                fail("Illegal character in " + what, p);
+        }
+
+        // Check that the char at position p matches the given mask
+        //
+        private void checkChar(int p,
+                               long lowMask, long highMask,
+                               String what)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            checkChars(p, p + 1, lowMask, highMask, what);
+        }
+
+
+        // -- Parsing --
+
+        // [<scheme>:]<scheme-specific-part>[#<fragment>]
+        //
+        void parse(boolean rsa) throws URISyntaxException {
+            requireServerAuthority = rsa;
+            int ssp;                    // Start of scheme-specific part
+            int n = input.length();
+            int p = scan(0, n, "/?#", ":");
+            if ((p >= 0) && at(p, n, ':')) {
+                if (p == 0)
+                    failExpecting("scheme name", 0);
+                checkChar(0, L_ALPHA, H_ALPHA, "scheme name");
+                checkChars(1, p, L_SCHEME, H_SCHEME, "scheme name");
+                scheme = substring(0, p);
+                p++;                    // Skip ':'
+                ssp = p;
+                if (at(p, n, '/')) {
+                    p = parseHierarchical(p, n);
+                } else {
+                    int q = scan(p, n, "", "#");
+                    if (q <= p)
+                        failExpecting("scheme-specific part", p);
+                    checkChars(p, q, L_URIC, H_URIC, "opaque part");
+                    p = q;
+                }
+            } else {
+                ssp = 0;
+                p = parseHierarchical(0, n);
+            }
+            schemeSpecificPart = substring(ssp, p);
+            if (at(p, n, '#')) {
+                checkChars(p + 1, n, L_URIC, H_URIC, "fragment");
+                fragment = substring(p + 1, n);
+                p = n;
+            }
+            if (p < n)
+                fail("end of URI", p);
+        }
+
+        // [//authority]<path>[?<query>]
+        //
+        // DEVIATION from RFC2396: We allow an empty authority component as
+        // long as it's followed by a non-empty path, query component, or
+        // fragment component.  This is so that URIs such as "file:///foo/bar"
+        // will parse.  This seems to be the intent of RFC2396, though the
+        // grammar does not permit it.  If the authority is empty then the
+        // userInfo, host, and port components are undefined.
+        //
+        // DEVIATION from RFC2396: We allow empty relative paths.  This seems
+        // to be the intent of RFC2396, but the grammar does not permit it.
+        // The primary consequence of this deviation is that "#f" parses as a
+        // relative URI with an empty path.
+        //
+        private int parseHierarchical(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            if (at(p, n, '/') && at(p + 1, n, '/')) {
+                p += 2;
+                int q = scan(p, n, "", "/?#");
+                if (q > p) {
+                    p = parseAuthority(p, q);
+                } else if (q < n) {
+                    // DEVIATION: Allow empty authority prior to non-empty
+                    // path, query component or fragment identifier
+                } else
+                    failExpecting("authority", p);
+            }
+            int q = scan(p, n, "", "?#"); // DEVIATION: May be empty
+            checkChars(p, q, L_PATH, H_PATH, "path");
+            path = substring(p, q);
+            p = q;
+            if (at(p, n, '?')) {
+                p++;
+                q = scan(p, n, "", "#");
+                checkChars(p, q, L_URIC, H_URIC, "query");
+                query = substring(p, q);
+                p = q;
+            }
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // authority     = server | reg_name
+        //
+        // Ambiguity: An authority that is a registry name rather than a server
+        // might have a prefix that parses as a server.  We use the fact that
+        // the authority component is always followed by '/' or the end of the
+        // input string to resolve this: If the complete authority did not
+        // parse as a server then we try to parse it as a registry name.
+        //
+        private int parseAuthority(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q = p;
+            URISyntaxException ex = null;
+
+            boolean serverChars;
+            boolean regChars;
+
+            if (scan(p, n, "", "]") > p) {
+                // contains a literal IPv6 address, therefore % is allowed
+                serverChars = (scan(p, n, L_SERVER_PERCENT, H_SERVER_PERCENT) == n);
+            } else {
+                serverChars = (scan(p, n, L_SERVER, H_SERVER) == n);
+            }
+            regChars = (scan(p, n, L_REG_NAME, H_REG_NAME) == n);
+
+            if (regChars && !serverChars) {
+                // Must be a registry-based authority
+                authority = substring(p, n);
+                return n;
+            }
+
+            if (serverChars) {
+                // Might be (probably is) a server-based authority, so attempt
+                // to parse it as such.  If the attempt fails, try to treat it
+                // as a registry-based authority.
+                try {
+                    q = parseServer(p, n);
+                    if (q < n)
+                        failExpecting("end of authority", q);
+                    authority = substring(p, n);
+                } catch (URISyntaxException x) {
+                    // Undo results of failed parse
+                    userInfo = null;
+                    host = null;
+                    port = -1;
+                    if (requireServerAuthority) {
+                        // If we're insisting upon a server-based authority,
+                        // then just re-throw the exception
+                        throw x;
+                    } else {
+                        // Save the exception in case it doesn't parse as a
+                        // registry either
+                        ex = x;
+                        q = p;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (q < n) {
+                if (regChars) {
+                    // Registry-based authority
+                    authority = substring(p, n);
+                } else if (ex != null) {
+                    // Re-throw exception; it was probably due to
+                    // a malformed IPv6 address
+                    throw ex;
+                } else {
+                    fail("Illegal character in authority", q);
+                }
+            }
+
+            return n;
+        }
+
+
+        // [<userinfo>@]<host>[:<port>]
+        //
+        private int parseServer(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q;
+
+            // userinfo
+            q = scan(p, n, "/?#", "@");
+            if ((q >= p) && at(q, n, '@')) {
+                checkChars(p, q, L_USERINFO, H_USERINFO, "user info");
+                userInfo = substring(p, q);
+                p = q + 1;              // Skip '@'
+            }
+
+            // hostname, IPv4 address, or IPv6 address
+            if (at(p, n, '[')) {
+                // DEVIATION from RFC2396: Support IPv6 addresses, per RFC2732
+                p++;
+                q = scan(p, n, "/?#", "]");
+                if ((q > p) && at(q, n, ']')) {
+                    // look for a "%" scope id
+                    int r = scan (p, q, "", "%");
+                    if (r > p) {
+                        parseIPv6Reference(p, r);
+                        if (r+1 == q) {
+                            fail ("scope id expected");
+                        }
+                        checkChars (r+1, q, L_ALPHANUM, H_ALPHANUM,
+                                                "scope id");
+                    } else {
+                        parseIPv6Reference(p, q);
+                    }
+                    host = substring(p-1, q+1);
+                    p = q + 1;
+                } else {
+                    failExpecting("closing bracket for IPv6 address", q);
+                }
+            } else {
+                q = parseIPv4Address(p, n);
+                if (q <= p)
+                    q = parseHostname(p, n);
+                p = q;
+            }
+
+            // port
+            if (at(p, n, ':')) {
+                p++;
+                q = scan(p, n, "", "/");
+                if (q > p) {
+                    checkChars(p, q, L_DIGIT, H_DIGIT, "port number");
+                    try {
+                        port = Integer.parseInt(substring(p, q));
+                    } catch (NumberFormatException x) {
+                        fail("Malformed port number", p);
+                    }
+                    p = q;
+                }
+            }
+            if (p < n)
+                failExpecting("port number", p);
+
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // Scan a string of decimal digits whose value fits in a byte
+        //
+        private int scanByte(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q = scan(p, n, L_DIGIT, H_DIGIT);
+            if (q <= p) return q;
+            if (Integer.parseInt(substring(p, q)) > 255) return p;
+            return q;
+        }
+
+        // Scan an IPv4 address.
+        //
+        // If the strict argument is true then we require that the given
+        // interval contain nothing besides an IPv4 address; if it is false
+        // then we only require that it start with an IPv4 address.
+        //
+        // If the interval does not contain or start with (depending upon the
+        // strict argument) a legal IPv4 address characters then we return -1
+        // immediately; otherwise we insist that these characters parse as a
+        // legal IPv4 address and throw an exception on failure.
+        //
+        // We assume that any string of decimal digits and dots must be an IPv4
+        // address.  It won't parse as a hostname anyway, so making that
+        // assumption here allows more meaningful exceptions to be thrown.
+        //
+        private int scanIPv4Address(int start, int n, boolean strict)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q;
+            int m = scan(p, n, L_DIGIT | L_DOT, H_DIGIT | H_DOT);
+            if ((m <= p) || (strict && (m != n)))
+                return -1;
+            for (;;) {
+                // Per RFC2732: At most three digits per byte
+                // Further constraint: Each element fits in a byte
+                if ((q = scanByte(p, m)) <= p) break;   p = q;
+                if ((q = scan(p, m, '.')) <= p) break;  p = q;
+                if ((q = scanByte(p, m)) <= p) break;   p = q;
+                if ((q = scan(p, m, '.')) <= p) break;  p = q;
+                if ((q = scanByte(p, m)) <= p) break;   p = q;
+                if ((q = scan(p, m, '.')) <= p) break;  p = q;
+                if ((q = scanByte(p, m)) <= p) break;   p = q;
+                if (q < m) break;
+                return q;
+            }
+            fail("Malformed IPv4 address", q);
+            return -1;
+        }
+
+        // Take an IPv4 address: Throw an exception if the given interval
+        // contains anything except an IPv4 address
+        //
+        private int takeIPv4Address(int start, int n, String expected)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = scanIPv4Address(start, n, true);
+            if (p <= start)
+                failExpecting(expected, start);
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // Attempt to parse an IPv4 address, returning -1 on failure but
+        // allowing the given interval to contain [:<characters>] after
+        // the IPv4 address.
+        //
+        private int parseIPv4Address(int start, int n) {
+            int p;
+
+            try {
+                p = scanIPv4Address(start, n, false);
+            } catch (URISyntaxException x) {
+                return -1;
+            } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+
+            if (p > start && p < n) {
+                // IPv4 address is followed by something - check that
+                // it's a ":" as this is the only valid character to
+                // follow an address.
+                if (charAt(p) != ':') {
+                    p = -1;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (p > start)
+                host = substring(start, p);
+
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // hostname      = domainlabel [ "." ] | 1*( domainlabel "." ) toplabel [ "." ]
+        // domainlabel   = alphanum | alphanum *( alphanum | "-" ) alphanum
+        // toplabel      = alpha | alpha *( alphanum | "-" ) alphanum
+        //
+        private int parseHostname(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q;
+            int l = -1;                 // Start of last parsed label
+
+            do {
+                // domainlabel = alphanum [ *( alphanum | "-" ) alphanum ]
+                q = scan(p, n, L_ALPHANUM, H_ALPHANUM);
+                if (q <= p)
+                    break;
+                l = p;
+                if (q > p) {
+                    p = q;
+                    q = scan(p, n, L_ALPHANUM | L_DASH, H_ALPHANUM | H_DASH);
+                    if (q > p) {
+                        if (charAt(q - 1) == '-')
+                            fail("Illegal character in hostname", q - 1);
+                        p = q;
+                    }
+                }
+                q = scan(p, n, '.');
+                if (q <= p)
+                    break;
+                p = q;
+            } while (p < n);
+
+            if ((p < n) && !at(p, n, ':'))
+                fail("Illegal character in hostname", p);
+
+            if (l < 0)
+                failExpecting("hostname", start);
+
+            // for a fully qualified hostname check that the rightmost
+            // label starts with an alpha character.
+            if (l > start && !match(charAt(l), L_ALPHA, H_ALPHA)) {
+                fail("Illegal character in hostname", l);
+            }
+
+            host = substring(start, p);
+            return p;
+        }
+
+
+        // IPv6 address parsing, from RFC2373: IPv6 Addressing Architecture
+        //
+        // Bug: The grammar in RFC2373 Appendix B does not allow addresses of
+        // the form ::12.34.56.78, which are clearly shown in the examples
+        // earlier in the document.  Here is the original grammar:
+        //
+        //   IPv6address = hexpart [ ":" IPv4address ]
+        //   hexpart     = hexseq | hexseq "::" [ hexseq ] | "::" [ hexseq ]
+        //   hexseq      = hex4 *( ":" hex4)
+        //   hex4        = 1*4HEXDIG
+        //
+        // We therefore use the following revised grammar:
+        //
+        //   IPv6address = hexseq [ ":" IPv4address ]
+        //                 | hexseq [ "::" [ hexpost ] ]
+        //                 | "::" [ hexpost ]
+        //   hexpost     = hexseq | hexseq ":" IPv4address | IPv4address
+        //   hexseq      = hex4 *( ":" hex4)
+        //   hex4        = 1*4HEXDIG
+        //
+        // This covers all and only the following cases:
+        //
+        //   hexseq
+        //   hexseq : IPv4address
+        //   hexseq ::
+        //   hexseq :: hexseq
+        //   hexseq :: hexseq : IPv4address
+        //   hexseq :: IPv4address
+        //   :: hexseq
+        //   :: hexseq : IPv4address
+        //   :: IPv4address
+        //   ::
+        //
+        // Additionally we constrain the IPv6 address as follows :-
+        //
+        //  i.  IPv6 addresses without compressed zeros should contain
+        //      exactly 16 bytes.
+        //
+        //  ii. IPv6 addresses with compressed zeros should contain
+        //      less than 16 bytes.
+
+        private int ipv6byteCount = 0;
+
+        private int parseIPv6Reference(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q;
+            boolean compressedZeros = false;
+
+            q = scanHexSeq(p, n);
+
+            if (q > p) {
+                p = q;
+                if (at(p, n, "::")) {
+                    compressedZeros = true;
+                    p = scanHexPost(p + 2, n);
+                } else if (at(p, n, ':')) {
+                    p = takeIPv4Address(p + 1,  n, "IPv4 address");
+                    ipv6byteCount += 4;
+                }
+            } else if (at(p, n, "::")) {
+                compressedZeros = true;
+                p = scanHexPost(p + 2, n);
+            }
+            if (p < n)
+                fail("Malformed IPv6 address", start);
+            if (ipv6byteCount > 16)
+                fail("IPv6 address too long", start);
+            if (!compressedZeros && ipv6byteCount < 16)
+                fail("IPv6 address too short", start);
+            if (compressedZeros && ipv6byteCount == 16)
+                fail("Malformed IPv6 address", start);
+
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        private int scanHexPost(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q;
+
+            if (p == n)
+                return p;
+
+            q = scanHexSeq(p, n);
+            if (q > p) {
+                p = q;
+                if (at(p, n, ':')) {
+                    p++;
+                    p = takeIPv4Address(p, n, "hex digits or IPv4 address");
+                    ipv6byteCount += 4;
+                }
+            } else {
+                p = takeIPv4Address(p, n, "hex digits or IPv4 address");
+                ipv6byteCount += 4;
+            }
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        // Scan a hex sequence; return -1 if one could not be scanned
+        //
+        private int scanHexSeq(int start, int n)
+            throws URISyntaxException
+        {
+            int p = start;
+            int q;
+
+            q = scan(p, n, L_HEX, H_HEX);
+            if (q <= p)
+                return -1;
+            if (at(q, n, '.'))          // Beginning of IPv4 address
+                return -1;
+            if (q > p + 4)
+                fail("IPv6 hexadecimal digit sequence too long", p);
+            ipv6byteCount += 2;
+            p = q;
+            while (p < n) {
+                if (!at(p, n, ':'))
+                    break;
+                if (at(p + 1, n, ':'))
+                    break;              // "::"
+                p++;
+                q = scan(p, n, L_HEX, H_HEX);
+                if (q <= p)
+                    failExpecting("digits for an IPv6 address", p);
+                if (at(q, n, '.')) {    // Beginning of IPv4 address
+                    p--;
+                    break;
+                }
+                if (q > p + 4)
+                    fail("IPv6 hexadecimal digit sequence too long", p);
+                ipv6byteCount += 2;
+                p = q;
+            }
+
+            return p;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}