From b350cba0ab93efb680b809c22d60d015a1450c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Puchkovskiy <roman.puchkovskiy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:34:09 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added a template method to configure HttpURLConnection before
 its use

---
 src/main/java/org/scribe/model/Request.java | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/scribe/model/Request.java b/src/main/java/org/scribe/model/Request.java
index e48578e21..62ab56ca7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/scribe/model/Request.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/scribe/model/Request.java
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ public Response send(RequestTuner tuner)
     try
     {
       createConnection();
+      configureConnection(connection);
       return doSend(tuner);
     }
     catch (Exception e)
@@ -382,6 +383,16 @@ void setConnection(HttpURLConnection connection)
     this.connection = connection;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Used to configure HttpURLConnection before it's used.
+   * This method is meant to be overridden by subclasses.
+   *
+   * @param connection  connection to configure
+   */
+  protected void configureConnection(HttpURLConnection connection) {
+    // by default, doing nothing.
+  }
+
   @Override
   public String toString()
   {