public interface

HttpRequestInterceptor

org.apache.http.HttpRequestInterceptor
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

HTTP protocol interceptor is a routine that implements a specific aspect of the HTTP protocol. Usually protocol interceptors are expected to act upon one specific header or a group of related headers of the incoming message or populate the outgoing message with one specific header or a group of related headers.

Protocol Interceptors can also manipulate content entities enclosed with messages. Usually this is accomplished by using the 'Decorator' pattern where a wrapper entity class is used to decorate the original entity.

Protocol interceptors must be implemented as thread-safe. Similarly to servlets, protocol interceptors should not use instance variables unless access to those variables is synchronized.

Summary

Public Methods
abstract void process(HttpRequest request, HttpContext context)
Processes a request.

Public Methods

public abstract void process (HttpRequest request, HttpContext context)

Processes a request. On the client side, this step is performed before the request is sent to the server. On the server side, this step is performed on incoming messages before the message body is evaluated.

Parameters
request the request to preprocess
context the context for the request
Throws
HttpException in case of an HTTP protocol violation
IOException in case of an I/O error