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Public API to the Mattress framework. This is essentially what JSR 311 should be.

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/*
 * Copyright 2007-2008, Josh Devins.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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package org.mattressframework.api.http;

import org.mattressframework.api.exceptions.ParseException;

/**
 * An abstraction for an HTTP header field in a request or response. This has
 * been modeled after the Apache
 * HTTP Components class of the same name.
 * 
 * 
 * RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1), Section
 * 4.2 Headers
 * 
 * 
 * @author Josh Devins ([email protected])
 */
public interface Header {

    HeaderElement[] getElements() throws ParseException;

    String getName();

    String getValue();
}