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DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy.java

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package org.apache.http.impl;

import org.apache.http.ConnectionReuseStrategy;
import org.apache.http.HttpConnection;
import org.apache.http.HeaderIterator;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;
import org.apache.http.ParseException;
import org.apache.http.ProtocolVersion;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.ExecutionContext;
import org.apache.http.TokenIterator;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicTokenIterator;

/**
 * Default implementation of a strategy deciding about connection re-use.
 * The default implementation first checks some basics, for example
 * whether the connection is still open or whether the end of the
 * request entity can be determined without closing the connection.
 * If these checks pass, the tokens in the "Connection" header will
 * be examined. In the absence of a "Connection" header, the
 * non-standard but commonly used "Proxy-Connection" header takes
 * it's role. A token "close" indicates that the connection cannot
 * be reused. If there is no such token, a token "keep-alive" indicates
 * that the connection should be re-used. If neither token is found,
 * or if there are no "Connection" headers, the default policy for
 * the HTTP version is applied. Since HTTP/1.1, connections are re-used
 * by default. Up until HTTP/1.0, connections are not re-used by default.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:rolandw at apache.org">Roland Weber</a>
 *
 * @version $Revision: 602537 $
 * 
 * @since 4.0
 */
public class DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy
    implements ConnectionReuseStrategy {

    public DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy() {
        super();
    }

    // see interface ConnectionReuseStrategy
    public boolean keepAlive(final HttpResponse response,
                             final HttpContext context) {
        if (response == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException
                ("HTTP response may not be null.");
        }
        if (context == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException
                ("HTTP context may not be null.");
        }
        
        HttpConnection conn = (HttpConnection)
            context.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_CONNECTION);

        if (conn != null && !conn.isOpen())
            return false;
        // do NOT check for stale connection, that is an expensive operation

        // Check for a self-terminating entity. If the end of the entity will
        // be indicated by closing the connection, there is no keep-alive.
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        ProtocolVersion ver = response.getStatusLine().getProtocolVersion();
        if (entity != null) {
            if (entity.getContentLength() < 0) {
                if (!entity.isChunked() ||
                    ver.lessEquals(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_0)) {
                    // if the content length is not known and is not chunk
                    // encoded, the connection cannot be reused
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }

        // Check for the "Connection" header. If that is absent, check for
        // the "Proxy-Connection" header. The latter is an unspecified and
        // broken but unfortunately common extension of HTTP.
        HeaderIterator hit = response.headerIterator(HTTP.CONN_DIRECTIVE);
        if (!hit.hasNext())
            hit = response.headerIterator("Proxy-Connection");

        // Experimental usage of the "Connection" header in HTTP/1.0 is
        // documented in RFC 2068, section 19.7.1. A token "keep-alive" is
        // used to indicate that the connection should be persistent.
        // Note that the final specification of HTTP/1.1 in RFC 2616 does not
        // include this information. Neither is the "Connection" header
        // mentioned in RFC 1945, which informally describes HTTP/1.0.
        //
        // RFC 2616 specifies "close" as the only connection token with a
        // specific meaning: it disables persistent connections.
        //
        // The "Proxy-Connection" header is not formally specified anywhere,
        // but is commonly used to carry one token, "close" or "keep-alive".
        // The "Connection" header, on the other hand, is defined as a
        // sequence of tokens, where each token is a header name, and the
        // token "close" has the above-mentioned additional meaning.
        //
        // To get through this mess, we treat the "Proxy-Connection" header
        // in exactly the same way as the "Connection" header, but only if
        // the latter is missing. We scan the sequence of tokens for both
        // "close" and "keep-alive". As "close" is specified by RFC 2068,
        // it takes precedence and indicates a non-persistent connection.
        // If there is no "close" but a "keep-alive", we take the hint.

        if (hit.hasNext()) {
            try {
                TokenIterator ti = createTokenIterator(hit);
                boolean keepalive = false;
                while (ti.hasNext()) {
                    final String token = ti.nextToken();
                    if (HTTP.CONN_CLOSE.equalsIgnoreCase(token)) {
                        return false;
                    } else if (HTTP.CONN_KEEP_ALIVE.equalsIgnoreCase(token)) {
                        // continue the loop, there may be a "close" afterwards
                        keepalive = true;
                    }
                }
                if (keepalive)
                    return true;
                // neither "close" nor "keep-alive", use default policy

            } catch (ParseException px) {
                // invalid connection header means no persistent connection
                // we don't have logging in HttpCore, so the exception is lost
                return false;
            }
        }

        // default since HTTP/1.1 is persistent, before it was non-persistent
        return !ver.lessEquals(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_0);
    }


    /**
     * Creates a token iterator from a header iterator.
     * This method can be overridden to replace the implementation of
     * the token iterator.
     *
     * @param hit       the header iterator
     *
     * @return  the token iterator
     */
    protected TokenIterator createTokenIterator(HeaderIterator hit) {
        return new BasicTokenIterator(hit);
    }
}