public interface

CookiePolicy

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package java.net;

/**
 * CookiePolicy implementations decide which cookies should be accepted
 * and which should be rejected. Three pre-defined policy implementations
 * are provided, namely ACCEPT_ALL, ACCEPT_NONE and ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER.
 *
 * <p>See RFC 2965 sec. 3.3 & 7 for more detail.
 *
 * @author Edward Wang
 * @since 1.6
 */
public interface CookiePolicy {
    /**
     * One pre-defined policy which accepts all cookies.
     */
    public static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ALL = new CookiePolicy(){
        public boolean shouldAccept(URI uri, HttpCookie cookie) {
            return true;
        }
    };

    /**
     * One pre-defined policy which accepts no cookies.
     */
    public static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_NONE = new CookiePolicy(){
        public boolean shouldAccept(URI uri, HttpCookie cookie) {
            return false;
        }
    };

    /**
     * One pre-defined policy which only accepts cookies from original server.
     */
    public static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER  = new CookiePolicy(){
        public boolean shouldAccept(URI uri, HttpCookie cookie) {
            return HttpCookie.domainMatches(cookie.getDomain(), uri.getHost());
        }
    };


    /**
     * Will be called to see whether or not this cookie should be accepted.
     *
     * @param uri       the URI to consult accept policy with
     * @param cookie    the HttpCookie object in question
     * @return          <tt>true</tt> if this cookie should be accepted;
     *                  otherwise, <tt>false</tt>
     */
    public boolean shouldAccept(URI uri, HttpCookie cookie);
}