Kevin Conner wrote:
This is also why alternatives were put in place, allowing you to do what you wish.
Kev has it exactly right. As I said up above, "If it's in the same VM, use internal://. If it's on another server, use http:// or https://. If you don't want to be dependent on the availability of the other server, use file:// or classpath://. What's the problem here?"