Metacat

package edu.ucsb.nceas.protocols.metacat;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.net.URL;

public class MetacatURLConnection extends java.net.URLConnection

{

  public MetacatURLConnection(URL u)

  {

    super(u);

  }

  public void setRequestHeader(String name, String value)

  {

  }

  public void connect() throws IOException

  {

    super.connected = true;

  }

}

package edu.ucsb.nceas.protocols.metacat;

import java.net.URL;

import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Handler extends java.net.URLStreamHandler

{

  protected URLConnection openConnection(URL u)

  {

    //...create and return a custom 

    // URLConnection initialized

    // with a reference to the target 

    // URL object...

    return new MetacatURLConnection(u);

  }

}