1 /*
2 * $Header: /home/jerenkrantz/tmp/commons/commons-convert/cvs/home/cvs/jakarta-commons//httpclient/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/params/HttpParamsFactory.java,v 1.5 2004/05/13 04:01:22 mbecke Exp $
3 * $Revision: 155418 $
4 * $Date: 2005-02-26 08:01:52 -0500 (Sat, 26 Feb 2005) $
5 *
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28 */
29
30 package org.apache.commons.httpclient.params;
31
32 /***
33 * A factory for getting the default set of parameters to use when creating an instance of
34 * <code>HttpParams</code>.
35 *
36 * @see org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.DefaultHttpParams#setHttpParamsFactory(HttpParamsFactory)
37 *
38 * @since 3.0
39 */
40 public interface HttpParamsFactory {
41
42 /***
43 * Gets the default parameters. This method may be called more than once and is not required
44 * to always return the same value.
45 *
46 * @return an instance of HttpParams
47 */
48 HttpParams getDefaultParams();
49
50 }