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  <div class="jd-tagdata jd-tagdescr"><p>Decides whether a connection can be kept open after a request.
 If this method returns <code>false</code>, the caller MUST
 close the connection to correctly implement the HTTP protocol.
 If it returns <code>true</code>, the caller SH