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package org.apache.commons.httpclient.server;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Defines an HTTP request handler for the SimpleHttpServer
*
* @author Christian Kohlschuetter
* @author Oleg Kalnichevski
*/
public interface HttpRequestHandler {
/**
* The request handler is asked to process this request.
*
* If it is not capable/interested in processing it, this call should
* be simply ignored.
*
* Any modification of the output stream (via <code>conn.getWriter()</code>)
* by this request handler will stop the execution chain and return the output
* to the client.
*
* The handler may also rewrite the request parameters (this is useful in
* {@link HttpRequestHandlerChain} structures).
*
* @param conn The Connection object to which this request belongs to.
* @param request The request object.
* @return true if this handler handled the request and no other handlers in the
* chain should be called, false otherwise.
* @throws IOException
*/
public boolean processRequest(
final SimpleHttpServerConnection conn,
final SimpleRequest request) throws IOException;
}