01: /*
02: * $HeadURL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/tags/4.0-beta1/module-main/src/main/java/org/apache/http/HttpServerConnection.java $
03: * $Revision: 542199 $
04: * $Date: 2007-05-28 13:23:46 +0200 (Mon, 28 May 2007) $
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31:
32: package org.apache.http;
33:
34: import java.io.IOException;
35:
36: /**
37: * An HTTP connection for use on the server side.
38: * Requests are received, responses are sent.
39: *
40: * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
41: *
42: * @version $Revision: 542199 $
43: *
44: * @since 4.0
45: */
46: public interface HttpServerConnection extends HttpConnection {
47:
48: /**
49: * Receives the request line and all headers available from this connection.
50: * The caller should examine the returned request and decide if to receive a
51: * request entity as well.
52: *
53: * @return a new HttpRequest object whose request line and headers are
54: * initialized.
55: * @throws HttpException
56: * @throws IOException
57: */
58: HttpRequest receiveRequestHeader() throws HttpException,
59: IOException;
60:
61: /**
62: * Receives the next request entity available from this connection and attaches it to
63: * an existing request.
64: * @param request the request to attach the entity to.
65: * @throws HttpException
66: * @throws IOException
67: */
68: void receiveRequestEntity(HttpEntityEnclosingRequest request)
69: throws HttpException, IOException;
70:
71: /**
72: * Sends the response line and headers of a response over this connection.
73: * @param response the response whose headers to send.
74: * @throws HttpException
75: * @throws IOException
76: */
77: void sendResponseHeader(HttpResponse response)
78: throws HttpException, IOException;
79:
80: /**
81: * Sends the response entity of a response over this connection.
82: * @param response the response whose entity to send.
83: * @throws HttpException
84: * @throws IOException
85: */
86: void sendResponseEntity(HttpResponse response)
87: throws HttpException, IOException;
88:
89: /**
90: * Sends all pending buffered data over this connection.
91: * @throws IOException
92: */
93: void flush() throws IOException;
94:
95: }
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