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package org.apache.http.client;

import java.net.URI;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.ProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
 * A handler for determining if an HTTP request should be redirected to
 * a new location in response to an HTTP response received from the target
 * server.
 * 
 * Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared
 * data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed
 * from multiple threads.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 *
 * @deprecated (4.1)  use {@link RedirectStrategy}
 */
@Deprecated
public interface RedirectHandler {

    /**
     * Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location
     * given the response from the target server.
     *
     * @param response the response received from the target server
     * @param context the context for the request execution
     *
     * @return {@code true} if the request should be redirected, {@code false}
     * otherwise
     */
    boolean isRedirectRequested(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context);

    /**
     * Determines the location request is expected to be redirected to
     * given the response from the target server and the current request
     * execution context.
     *
     * @param response the response received from the target server
     * @param context the context for the request execution
     *
     * @return redirect URI
     */
    URI getLocationURI(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)
            throws ProtocolException;

}