gecko-dev/netwerk/base/public/nsIStandardURL.idl
bzbarsky%mit.edu 722b5218b2 Add an interface for nested URIs (like jar:, view-source:, etc) to implement
and use it in various places.  Create null principals if asked for a codebase
principal for a codebase that doesn't have an inherent security context (eg
data: or javascript:).  Bug 334407, r=biesi,dveditz, sr=darin
2006-05-02 18:54:19 +00:00

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
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#include "nsIMutable.idl"
interface nsIURI;
/**
* nsIStandardURL defines the interface to an URL with the standard
* file path format common to protocols like http, ftp, and file.
* It supports initialization from a relative path and provides
* some customization on how URLs are normalized.
*
* @status UNDER_REVIEW
*/
[scriptable, uuid(babd6cca-ebe7-4329-967c-d6b9e33caa81)]
interface nsIStandardURL : nsIMutable
{
/**
* blah:foo/bar => blah://foo/bar
* blah:/foo/bar => blah:///foo/bar
* blah://foo/bar => blah://foo/bar
* blah:///foo/bar => blah:///foo/bar
*/
const unsigned long URLTYPE_STANDARD = 1;
/**
* blah:foo/bar => blah://foo/bar
* blah:/foo/bar => blah://foo/bar
* blah://foo/bar => blah://foo/bar
* blah:///foo/bar => blah://foo/bar
*/
const unsigned long URLTYPE_AUTHORITY = 2;
/**
* blah:foo/bar => blah:///foo/bar
* blah:/foo/bar => blah:///foo/bar
* blah://foo/bar => blah://foo/bar
* blah:///foo/bar => blah:///foo/bar
*/
const unsigned long URLTYPE_NO_AUTHORITY = 3;
/**
* Initialize a standard URL.
*
* @param aUrlType - one of the URLTYPE_ flags listed above.
* @param aDefaultPort - if the port parsed from the URL string matches
* this port, then the port will be removed from the
* canonical form of the URL.
* @param aSpec - URL string.
* @param aOriginCharset - the charset from which this URI string
* originated. this corresponds to the charset
* that should be used when communicating this
* URI to an origin server, for example. if
* null, then provide aBaseURI implements this
* interface, the origin charset of aBaseURI will
* be assumed, otherwise defaulting to UTF-8 (i.e.,
* no charset transformation from aSpec).
* @param aBaseURI - if null, aSpec must specify an absolute URI.
* otherwise, aSpec will be resolved relative
* to aBaseURI.
*/
void init(in unsigned long aUrlType,
in long aDefaultPort,
in AUTF8String aSpec,
in string aOriginCharset,
in nsIURI aBaseURI);
};