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package org.apache.http.client.methods;

import java.net.URI;

import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;

/**
 * Extended version of the {@link HttpRequest} interface that provides 
 * convenience methods to access request properties such as request URI
 * and method type.
 *
 *
 * <!-- empty lines to avoid svn diff problems -->
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface HttpUriRequest extends HttpRequest {
    
    /**
     * Returns the HTTP method this request uses, such as <code>GET</code>,
     * <code>PUT</code>, <code>POST</code>, or other.
     */
    String getMethod();

    /**
     * Returns the URI this request uses, such as
     * <code>http://example.org/path/to/file</code>.
     * 
     * Note that this is the original URI, and is
     * unaffected by redirects.
     * 
     * To find the final URI after any redirects have been processed,
     * please see the section entitled 
     * <a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html/fundamentals.html#d4e205">HTTP execution context</a>
     * in the 
     * <a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html">HttpClient Tutorial</a>
     */
    URI getURI();
    
    /**
     * Aborts execution of the request. 
     * 
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if the abort operation 
     *   is not supported / cannot be implemented.
     */
    void abort() throws UnsupportedOperationException;
    
    /**
     * Tests if the request execution has been aborted.
     * 
     * @return <code>true</code> if the request execution has been aborted,
     *   <code>false</code> otherwise.
     */
    boolean isAborted();
    
}

@@ -1881,81 +1881,92 @@
   * 
-Note that this is the original URI, and is%0A     * unaffected by redirects
+Implementations are encouraged to return%0A     * the URI that was initially requested
 .%0A  

Tweak final URI documentation as suggested by Sam