org.apache.http
Interface Header

All Superinterfaces:

NameValuePair

All Known Subinterfaces:

FormattedHeader

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicHeader, BufferedHeader

public interface Header
extends NameValuePair

Represents an HTTP header field.

The HTTP header fields follow the same generic format as that given in Section 3.1 of RFC 822. Each header field consists of a name followed by a colon (":") and the field value. Field names are case-insensitive. The field value MAY be preceded by any amount of LWS, though a single SP is preferred.

     message-header = field-name ":" [ field-value ]
     field-name     = token
     field-value    = *( field-content | LWS )
     field-content  = <the OCTETs making up the field-value
                      and consisting of either *TEXT or combinations
                      of token, separators, and quoted-string>

Since:

4.0

Method Summary

HeaderElement[]

getElements() Parses the value.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.http.NameValuePair

getName, getValue

Method Detail

getElements

HeaderElement[] getElements()
                            throws ParseException

Parses the value.

Returns:

an array of HeaderElement entries, may be empty, but is never null

Throws:

ParseException - in case of a parsing error