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+/*
+ * $HeadURL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/module-main/src/main/java/org/apache/http/ConnectionReuseStrategy.java $
+ * $Revision: 496070 $
+ * $Date: 2007-01-14 04:18:34 -0800 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) $
+ *
+ * ====================================================================
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ * ====================================================================
+ *
+ * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+ * individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation.  For more
+ * information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see
+ * <http://www.apache.org/>.
+ *
+ */
+
+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);
+            
+}