Index: HttpMethod.java
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpMethod.java,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 HttpMethod.java
--- HttpMethod.java	18 Jan 2002 20:17:40 -0000	1.11
+++ HttpMethod.java	19 Feb 2002 15:49:38 -0000
@@ -106,6 +106,22 @@
     public String getPath();
 
     /**
+     * Turns strict mode on or off.  In strict mode (the default)
+     * we following the letter of RFC 2616, the Http 1.1 specification.
+     * If strict mode is turned off we attempt to violate the specification
+     * in the same way that most Http user agent's do (and many HTTP servers
+     * expect.
+     */
+    public void setStrictMode(boolean strictMode);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the value of strictMode.
+     *
+     * @return true if strict mode is enabled.
+     */
+    public boolean isStrictMode();
+     
+    /**
      * Set the specified request header, overwriting any
      * previous value.
      * Note that header-name matching is case insensitive.