org.apache.http.client
Interface RedirectStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultRedirectStrategy, LaxRedirectStrategy

public interface RedirectStrategy

A strategy for determining if an HTTP request should be redirected to a new location in response to an HTTP response received from the target server.

Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed from multiple threads.

Since:

4.1

Method Summary

HttpUriRequest	getRedirect(org.apache.http.HttpRequest request, org.apache.http.HttpResponse response, org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext context) Determines the redirect location given the response from the target server and the current request execution context and generates a new request to be sent to the location.
boolean	isRedirected(org.apache.http.HttpRequest request, org.apache.http.HttpResponse response, org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext context) Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location given the response from the target server.

Method Detail

isRedirected

boolean isRedirected(org.apache.http.HttpRequest request,
                     org.apache.http.HttpResponse response,
                     org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext context)
                     throws org.apache.http.ProtocolException

Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location given the response from the target server.

Parameters:

request - the executed request

response - the response received from the target server

context - the context for the request execution

Returns:

true if the request should be redirected, false otherwise

Throws:

org.apache.http.ProtocolException

getRedirect

HttpUriRequest getRedirect(org.apache.http.HttpRequest request,
                           org.apache.http.HttpResponse response,
                           org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext context)
                           throws org.apache.http.ProtocolException

Determines the redirect location given the response from the target server and the current request execution context and generates a new request to be sent to the location.

Parameters:

request - the executed request

response - the response received from the target server

context - the context for the request execution

Returns:

redirected request

Throws:

org.apache.http.ProtocolException