nsiioservice.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIProtocolHandler;
interface nsIChannel;
interface nsIURI;
interface nsIFile;

/**
 * nsIIOService provides a set of network utility functions.  This interface
 * duplicates many of the nsIProtocolHandler methods in a protocol handler
 * independent way (e.g., NewURI inspects the scheme in order to delegate
 * creation of the new URI to the appropriate protocol handler).  nsIIOService
 * also provides a set of URL parsing utility functions.  These are provided
 * as a convenience to the programmer and in some cases to improve performance
 * by eliminating intermediate data structures and interfaces.
 *
 * @status FROZEN
 */
[scriptable, uuid(bddeda3f-9020-4d12-8c70-984ee9f7935e)]
interface nsIIOService : nsISupports
{
    /**
     * Returns a protocol handler for a given URI scheme.
     *
     * @param aScheme the URI scheme
     * @return reference to corresponding nsIProtocolHandler
     */
    nsIProtocolHandler getProtocolHandler(in string aScheme);

    /**
     * Returns the protocol flags for a given scheme.
     *
     * @param aScheme the URI scheme
     * @return value of corresponding nsIProtocolHandler::protocolFlags
     */
    unsigned long getProtocolFlags(in string aScheme);

    /**
     * This method constructs a new URI by determining the scheme of the
     * URI spec, and then delegating the construction of the URI to the
     * protocol handler for that scheme. QueryInterface can be used on
     * the resulting URI object to obtain a more specific type of URI.
     *
     * @see nsIProtocolHandler::newURI
     */
    nsIURI newURI(in AUTF8String aSpec,
                  in string aOriginCharset,
                  in nsIURI aBaseURI);

    /**
     * This method constructs a new URI from a nsIFile.
     *
     * @param aFile specifies the file path
     * @return reference to a new nsIURI object
     */
    nsIURI newFileURI(in nsIFile aFile);

    /**
     * Creates a channel for a given URI.
     *
     * @param aURI nsIURI from which to make a channel
     * @return reference to the new nsIChannel object
     */
    nsIChannel newChannelFromURI(in nsIURI aURI);

    /**
     * Equivalent to newChannelFromURI(newURI(...))
     */
    nsIChannel newChannel(in AUTF8String aSpec,
                          in string aOriginCharset,
                          in nsIURI aBaseURI);

    /**
     * Returns true if networking is in "offline" mode. When in offline mode, 
     * attempts to access the network will fail (although this is not 
     * necessarily corrolated with whether there is actually a network 
     * available -- that's hard to detect without causing the dialer to 
     * come up).
     */
    attribute boolean offline;

    /**
     * Checks if a port number is banned. This involves consulting a list of
     * unsafe ports, corresponding to network services that may be easily
     * exploitable. If the given port is considered unsafe, then the protocol
     * handler (corresponding to aScheme) will be asked whether it wishes to
     * override the IO service's decision to block the port. This gives the
     * protocol handler ultimate control over its own security policy while
     * ensuring reasonable, default protection.
     *
     * @see nsIProtocolHandler::allowPort
     */
    boolean allowPort(in long aPort, in string aScheme);

    /**
     * Utility to extract the scheme from a URL string, consistently and
     * according to spec (see RFC 2396).
     *
     * NOTE: Most URL parsing is done via nsIURI, and in fact the scheme
     * can also be extracted from a URL string via nsIURI.  This method
     * is provided purely as an optimization.
     *
     * @param aSpec the URL string to parse
     * @return URL scheme
     *
     * @throws NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI if URL string is not of the right form.
     */
    ACString extractScheme(in AUTF8String urlString);
};