## org.apache.http.client
Interface RedirectStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:
  DefaultRedirectStrategy, LaxRedirectStrategy

    public interface RedirectStrategy

A strategy for determining if an HTTP request should be redirected to a new location in response to an HTTP response received from the target server.

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:
  4.1

Method Summary
`HttpUriRequest` `getRedirect(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)` Determines the redirect location given the response from the target server and the current request execution context and generates a new request to be sent to the location.
`boolean` `isRedirected(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)` Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location given the response from the target server.

Method Detail

### isRedirected

    boolean isRedirected(HttpRequest request,
                         HttpResponse response,
                         HttpContext context)
                         throws ProtocolException

  Determines if a request should be redirected to a new location given the response from the target server.

  Parameters:
    `request` - the executed request
    `response` - the response received from the target server
    `context` - the context for the request execution
  Returns:
    `true` if the request should be redirected, `false` otherwise
  Throws:
    `ProtocolException`

### getRedirect

    HttpUriRequest getRedirect(HttpRequest request,
                               HttpResponse response,
                               HttpContext context)
                               throws ProtocolException

  Determines the redirect location given the response from the target server and the current request execution context and generates a new request to be sent to the location.

  Parameters:
    `request` - the executed request
    `response` - the response received from the target server
    `context` - the context for the request execution
  Returns:
    redirected request
  Throws:
    `ProtocolException`

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