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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package javax.servlet.http;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletInputStream;
+import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
+
+/**
+ * The interface used by a {@link HttpUpgradeHandler} to interact with an upgraded
+ * HTTP connection.
+ *
+ * @since Servlet 3.1
+ */
+public interface WebConnection extends AutoCloseable {
+
+ /**
+ * Provides access to the {@link ServletInputStream} for reading data from
+ * the client.
+ */
+ ServletInputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Provides access to the {@link ServletOutputStream} for writing data to
+ * the client.
+ */
+ ServletOutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException;
+}
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