Need help with strange Class#getResource() issue

Question

I have some legacy code that reads a configuration file from an existing jar, like:

URL url = SomeClass.class.getResource(\"/configuration.properties\");
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Answer 1

It works with getresourceasstream because it is in the classpath, but it doesn't work with the URL maybe because the URL is not ok.

I don't know if the URL that getResource is creating is not ok, or there isn't a correct handler for the protocol (wouldn't it be file:jar:c:/myjar.jar!configuration.properties or something by the like (with two colons?)