Java url-stream-handler: native vs urlfetch

[Nilson Pontello]

What are the advantages and disadvantages while using native vs urlfetch?

It is known that urlfetch doesn't need billing enabled and you can also use it in order to identity your app to apis and services.

In theory, because there is nothing in the middle, native has a better performance than urlfetch. Has anyone compared both and measure the throughput?

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/config/appref#url-stream-handler

[Kenworth (Google Cloud Platform)]

There are currently no benchmarks for native vs urlfetch. This is probably because different applications have different needs, payloads, limitations, etc. The best way is to benchmark your own workload and decide based on that data.