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package org.apache.http.client.protocol;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.http.HttpException;
import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
import org.apache.http.HttpRequestInterceptor;
import org.apache.http.annotation.Immutable;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
 * Class responsible for handling Content Encoding requests in HTTP.
 * <p>
 * Instances of this class are stateless, therefore they're thread-safe and immutable.
 *
 * @see "http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.5"
 *
 * @since 4.1
 */
@Immutable
public class RequestAcceptEncoding implements HttpRequestInterceptor {

    /**
     * Adds the header {@code "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate"} to the request.
     */
    public void process(final HttpRequest request, final HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException {

        /* Signal support for Accept-Encoding transfer encodings. */
        if (!request.containsHeader("Accept-Encoding")) {
            request.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate");
        }
    }

}