org.htmlunit

Interface WebConnection

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DebuggingWebConnection, FalsifyingWebConnection, HttpWebConnection, MockWebConnection, WebConnectionWrapper

public interface WebConnection
extends AutoCloseable

An object which handles the actual communication portion of page retrieval/submission.

Author:

Mike Bowler, Daniel Gredler, Marc Guillemot, Ahmed Ashour

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	close()
WebResponse	getResponse(WebRequest request) Submits a request and retrieves a response.

Method Detail

getResponse

WebResponse getResponse(WebRequest request)
                 throws IOException

Submits a request and retrieves a response.

Parameters:

request - the request

Returns:

the response to the request defined by the specified request

Throws:

IOException - if an IO error occurs

close

void close()
    throws IOException

Specified by:

close in interface AutoCloseable

Throws:

IOException