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27
28 package org.apache.http.client;
29
30 import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
31 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
32 import org.apache.http.ProtocolException;
33 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
34 import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
35
36 /**
37 * A strategy for determining if an HTTP request should be redirected to
38 * a new location in response to an HTTP response received from the target
39 * server.
40 * <p>
41 * Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared
42 * data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed
43 * from multiple threads.
44 *
45 * @since 4.1
46 */
47 public interface RedirectStrategy {
48
49 /**
50 * Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location
51 * given the response from the target server.
52 *
53 * @param request the executed request
54 * @param response the response received from the target server
55 * @param context the context for the request execution
56 *
57 * @return <code>true</code> if the request should be redirected, <code>false</code>
58 * otherwise
59 */
60 boolean isRedirected(
61 HttpRequest request,
62 HttpResponse response,
63 HttpContext context) throws ProtocolException;
64
65 /**
66 * Determines the redirect location given the response from the target
67 * server and the current request execution context and generates a new
68 * request to be sent to the location.
69 *
70 * @param request the executed request
71 * @param response the response received from the target server
72 * @param context the context for the request execution
73 *
74 * @return redirected request
75 */
76 HttpUriRequest getRedirect(
77 HttpRequest request,
78 HttpResponse response,
79 HttpContext context) throws ProtocolException;
80
81 }