org.apache.commons.httpclient

HTTP "magic-cookie" represents a piece of state information that the HTTP agent and the target server can exchange to maintain a session.

The following options are set on the socket before getting the input/output streams in the HttpConnection.open() method:

Socket Method	Sockets Option	Configuration
java.net.Socket.setTcpNoDelay(boolean)	SO_NODELAY	HttpConnectionParams.setTcpNoDelay(boolean)
java.net.Socket.setSoTimeout(int)	SO_TIMEOUT	HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(int)
java.net.Socket.setSendBufferSize(int)	SO_SNDBUF	HttpConnectionParams.setSendBufferSize(int)
java.net.Socket.setReceiveBufferSize(int)	SO_RCVBUF	HttpConnectionParams.setReceiveBufferSize(int)

author:
   Rod Waldhoff
author:
   Sean C.

At minimum, subclasses will need to override:

• HttpMethodBase.getName to return the approriate name for this method

When a method requires additional request headers, subclasses will typically want to override:

• HttpMethodBase.addRequestHeaders addRequestHeaders(HttpState,HttpConnection) to write those headers

When a method expects specific response headers, subclasses may want to override:

• HttpMethodBase.processResponseHeaders processResponseHeaders(HttpState,HttpConnection) to handle those headers

A container for HTTP attributes that may persist from request to request, such as Cookie cookies and authentication Credentials credentials .