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package org.apache.http;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
/**
* Interface for deciding whether a connection should be kept alive.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
*
*
* <!-- empty lines above to avoid 'svn diff' context problems -->
* @version $Revision: 496070 $
*
* @since 4.0
*/
public interface ConnectionReuseStrategy {
/**
* Decides whether a connection can be kept open after a request.
* If this method returns <code>false</code>, the caller MUST
* close the connection to correctly implement the HTTP protocol.
* If it returns <code>true</code>, the caller SHOULD attempt to
* keep the connection open for reuse with another request.
* <br/>
* One can use the HTTP context to retrieve additional objects that
* may be relevant for the keep-alive strategy: the actual HTTP
* connection, the original HTTP request, target host if known,
* number of times the connection has been reused already and so on.
* <br/>
* If the connection is already closed, <code>false</code> is returned.
* The stale connection check MUST NOT be triggered by a
* connection reuse strategy.
*
* @param response
* The last response received over that connection.
* @param context the context in which the connection is being
* used.
*
* @return <code>true</code> if the connection is allowed to be reused, or
* <code>false</code> if it MUST NOT be reused
*/
boolean keepAlive(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context);
}