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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);
};