Package 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

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    HttpUriRequest
    getRedirect(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, 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(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)
    Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location given the response from the target server.

  • Method Details

    • isRedirected

      boolean isRedirected(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, HttpContext context) throws 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:
      ProtocolException

    • getRedirect

      HttpUriRequest getRedirect(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, HttpContext context) throws 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:
      ProtocolException