cz.msebera.android.httpclient.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 and 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 Detail

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