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package org.apache.http.client;

import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.ProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

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/**
 * 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.
 * <p>
 * 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
 */
public interface RedirectStrategy {

    
Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location
given the response from the target server.
Params:
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/**
     * Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location
     * given the response from the target server.
     *
     * @param request the executed request
     * @param response the response received from the target server
     * @param context the context for the request execution
     *
     * @return {@code true} if the request should be redirected, {@code false}
     * otherwise
     */
    boolean isRedirected(
            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.
Params:
request – the executed request
response – the response received from the target server
context – the context for the request execution
Returns:
redirected request/**
     * 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.
     *
     * @param request the executed request
     * @param response the response received from the target server
     * @param context the context for the request execution
     *
     * @return redirected request
     */
    HttpUriRequest getRedirect(
            HttpRequest request,
            HttpResponse response,
            HttpContext context) throws ProtocolException;

}