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Also: HttpClient
public interface

RedirectHandler

org.apache.http.client.RedirectHandler
Known Indirect Subclasses

This interface is deprecated.
use RedirectStrategy

Class Overview

A handler 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.

Summary

Public Methods
abstract URI getLocationURI(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)
Determines the location request is expected to be redirected to given the response from the target server and the current request execution context.
abstract boolean isRedirectRequested(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)
Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location given the response from the target server.

Public Methods

public abstract URI getLocationURI (HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)

Also: HttpClient

Determines the location request is expected to be redirected to given the response from the target server and the current request execution context.

Parameters
response the response received from the target server
context the context for the request execution
Returns
  • redirect URI
Throws
ProtocolException

public abstract boolean isRedirectRequested (HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)

Also: HttpClient

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

Parameters
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