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Does Web Start support downloading jars using FTP?

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Does Web Start support downloading jars using FTP?

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Web Start cannot handle FTP connections because it depends on HTTP headers for determining things like last-modified date. FTP returns no such headers. The JNLP spec explicitly limits JNLP to the HTTP protocol.

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