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package org.apache.commons.httpclient.params;

/**
 * A factory for getting the default set of parameters to use when creating an instance of 
 * <code>HttpParams</code>.
 * 
 * @see org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.DefaultHttpParams#setHttpParamsFactory(HttpParamsFactory)
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface HttpParamsFactory {

    /**
     * Gets the default parameters.  This method may be called more than once and is not required
     * to always return the same value.
     * 
     * @return an instance of HttpParams
     */
    HttpParams getDefaultParams();

}