org.apache.hc.core5.http

## Interface ConnectionReuseStrategy

- All Known Implementing Classes:
    DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy

      @Contract(threading=STATELESS)
      public interface ConnectionReuseStrategy

  Interface for deciding whether a connection can be re-used for subsequent requests and should be kept alive.

  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

- - ### Method Summary

    Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `boolean` | `keepAlive(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)` Decides whether a connection can be kept open after a request.

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### keepAlive

          boolean keepAlive(HttpRequest request,
                          HttpResponse response,
                          HttpContext context)

      Decides whether a connection can be kept open after a request. If this method returns `false`, the caller MUST close the connection to correctly comply with the HTTP protocol. If it returns `true`, the caller SHOULD attempt to keep the connection open for reuse with another request.

      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.

      If the connection is already closed, `false` is returned. The stale connection check MUST NOT be triggered by a connection reuse strategy.

      Parameters:
        `request` - The last request transmitted over that connection.
        `response` - The last response transmitted over that connection.
        `context` - the context in which the connection is being used.
      Returns:
        `true` if the connection is allowed to be reused, or `false` if it MUST NOT be reused

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