/*
* GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
* http://geotools.org
*
* (C) 2002-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
* version 2.1 of the License.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*/
package org.geotools.data.ws.protocol.http;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
/**
* A handle to an HTTP response headers and contents.
*
* @author Gabriel Roldan (OpenGeo)
* @version $Id$
* @since 2.6
*
*
* @source $URL$
*/
public interface HTTPResponse {
/**
* Returns the stream to the response contents ready to be consumed, whether gzip encoding is
* being used or not.
*
* @throws IOException
* the plain stream to the response contents
*/
public InputStream getResponseStream() throws IOException;
}