/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ #include "nsISupports.idl" %{C++ #include "nsCOMPtr.h" %} interface nsIURI; interface nsIChannel; interface nsILoadInfo; /** * nsIProtocolHandlerWithDynamicFlags * * Protocols that wish to return different flags depending on the URI should * implement this interface. */ [scriptable, builtinclass, uuid(65a8e823-0591-4fc0-a56a-03265e0a4ce8)] interface nsIProtocolHandlerWithDynamicFlags : nsISupports { /* * Returns protocol flags for the given URI, which may be different from the * flags for another URI of the same scheme. */ unsigned long getFlagsForURI(in nsIURI aURI); }; /** * nsIProtocolHandler */ [scriptable, uuid(a87210e6-7c8c-41f7-864d-df809015193e)] interface nsIProtocolHandler : nsISupports { /** * The scheme of this protocol (e.g., "file"). */ readonly attribute ACString scheme; /** * The default port is the port that this protocol normally uses. * If a port does not make sense for the protocol (e.g., "about:") * then -1 will be returned. */ readonly attribute long defaultPort; /** * Returns the protocol specific flags (see flag definitions below). */ readonly attribute unsigned long protocolFlags; %{C++ // Helper method to get the protocol flags in the right way. nsresult DoGetProtocolFlags(nsIURI* aURI, uint32_t* aFlags) { nsCOMPtr dh = do_QueryInterface(this); return dh ? dh->GetFlagsForURI(aURI, aFlags) : GetProtocolFlags(aFlags); } %} /** * Makes a URI object that is suitable for loading by this protocol, * where the URI string is given as an UTF-8 string. The caller may * provide the charset from which the URI string originated, so that * the URI string can be translated back to that charset (if necessary) * before communicating with, for example, the origin server of the URI * string. (Many servers do not support UTF-8 IRIs at the present time, * so we must be careful about tracking the native charset of the origin * server.) * * @param aSpec - the URI string in UTF-8 encoding. depending * on the protocol implementation, unicode character * sequences may or may not be %xx escaped. * @param aOriginCharset - the charset of the document 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 UTF-8 encoding is assumed (i.e., * no charset transformation from aSpec). * @param aBaseURI - if null, aSpec must specify an absolute URI. * otherwise, aSpec may be resolved relative * to aBaseURI, depending on the protocol. * If the protocol has no concept of relative * URI aBaseURI will simply be ignored. */ nsIURI newURI(in AUTF8String aSpec, in string aOriginCharset, in nsIURI aBaseURI); /** * Constructs a new channel from the given URI for this protocol handler and * sets the loadInfo for the constructed channel. */ nsIChannel newChannel2(in nsIURI aURI, in nsILoadInfo aLoadinfo); /** * Constructs a new channel from the given URI for this protocol handler. */ nsIChannel newChannel(in nsIURI aURI); /** * Allows a protocol to override blacklisted ports. * * This method will be called when there is an attempt to connect to a port * that is blacklisted. For example, for most protocols, port 25 (Simple Mail * Transfer) is banned. When a URI containing this "known-to-do-bad-things" * port number is encountered, this function will be called to ask if the * protocol handler wants to override the ban. */ boolean allowPort(in long port, in string scheme); /************************************************************************** * Constants for the protocol flags (the first is the default mask, the * others are deviations): * * NOTE: Implementation must ignore any flags they do not understand. */ /** * standard full URI with authority component and concept of relative * URIs (http, ftp, ...) */ const unsigned long URI_STD = 0; /** * no concept of relative URIs (about, javascript, finger, ...) */ const unsigned long URI_NORELATIVE = (1<<0); /** * no authority component (file, ...) */ const unsigned long URI_NOAUTH = (1<<1); /** * This protocol handler can be proxied via a proxy (socks or http) * (e.g., irc, smtp, http, etc.). If the protocol supports transparent * proxying, the handler should implement nsIProxiedProtocolHandler. * * If it supports only HTTP proxying, then it need not support * nsIProxiedProtocolHandler, but should instead set the ALLOWS_PROXY_HTTP * flag (see below). * * @see nsIProxiedProtocolHandler */ const unsigned long ALLOWS_PROXY = (1<<2); /** * This protocol handler can be proxied using a http proxy (e.g., http, * ftp, etc.). nsIIOService::newChannelFromURI will feed URIs from this * protocol handler to the HTTP protocol handler instead. This flag is * ignored if ALLOWS_PROXY is not set. */ const unsigned long ALLOWS_PROXY_HTTP = (1<<3); /** * The URIs for this protocol have no inherent security context, so * documents loaded via this protocol should inherit the security context * from the document that loads them. */ const unsigned long URI_INHERITS_SECURITY_CONTEXT = (1<<4); /** * "Automatic" loads that would replace the document (e.g. refresh, * certain types of XLinks, possibly other loads that the application * decides are not user triggered) are not allowed if the originating (NOT * the target) URI has this protocol flag. Note that the decision as to * what constitutes an "automatic" load is made externally, by the caller * of nsIScriptSecurityManager::CheckLoadURI. See documentation for that * method for more information. * * A typical protocol that might want to set this flag is a protocol that * shows highly untrusted content in a viewing area that the user expects * to have a lot of control over, such as an e-mail reader. */ const unsigned long URI_FORBIDS_AUTOMATIC_DOCUMENT_REPLACEMENT = (1<<5); /** * +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ * | | * | ALL PROTOCOL HANDLERS MUST SET ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FIVE FLAGS. | * | | * +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ * * These flags are used to determine who is allowed to load URIs for this * protocol. Note that if a URI is nested, only the flags for the * innermost URI matter. See nsINestedURI. * * If none of these five flags are set, the URI must be treated as if it * had the URI_LOADABLE_BY_ANYONE flag set, for compatibility with protocol * handlers written against Gecko 1.8 or earlier. In this case, there may * be run-time warning messages indicating that a "default insecure" * assumption is being made. At some point in the futures (Mozilla 2.0, * most likely), these warnings will become errors. */ /** * The URIs for this protocol can be loaded by anyone. For example, any * website should be allowed to trigger a load of a URI for this protocol. * Web-safe protocols like "http" should set this flag. */ const unsigned long URI_LOADABLE_BY_ANYONE = (1<<6); /** * The URIs for this protocol are UNSAFE if loaded by untrusted (web) * content and may only be loaded by privileged code (for example, code * which has the system principal). Various internal protocols should set * this flag. */ const unsigned long URI_DANGEROUS_TO_LOAD = (1<<7); /** * The URIs for this protocol point to resources that are part of the * application's user interface. There are cases when such resources may * be made accessible to untrusted content such as web pages, so this is * less restrictive than URI_DANGEROUS_TO_LOAD but more restrictive than * URI_LOADABLE_BY_ANYONE. See the documentation for * nsIScriptSecurityManager::CheckLoadURI. */ const unsigned long URI_IS_UI_RESOURCE = (1<<8); /** * Loading of URIs for this protocol from other origins should only be * allowed if those origins should have access to the local filesystem. * It's up to the application to decide what origins should have such * access. Protocols like "file" that point to local data should set this * flag. */ const unsigned long URI_IS_LOCAL_FILE = (1<<9); /** * The URIs for this protocol can be loaded only by callers with a * principal that subsumes this uri. For example, privileged code and * websites that are same origin as this uri. */ const unsigned long URI_LOADABLE_BY_SUBSUMERS = (1<<10); /** * Channels using this protocol never call OnDataAvailable * on the listener passed to AsyncOpen and they therefore * do not return any data that we can use. */ const unsigned long URI_DOES_NOT_RETURN_DATA = (1<<11); /** * URIs for this protocol are considered to be local resources. This could * be a local file (URI_IS_LOCAL_FILE), a UI resource (URI_IS_UI_RESOURCE), * or something else that would not hit the network. */ const unsigned long URI_IS_LOCAL_RESOURCE = (1<<12); /** * URIs for this protocol execute script when they are opened. */ const unsigned long URI_OPENING_EXECUTES_SCRIPT = (1<<13); /** * Loading channels from this protocol has side-effects that make * it unsuitable for saving to a local file. */ const unsigned long URI_NON_PERSISTABLE = (1<<14); /** * This protocol handler forbids accessing cookies e.g. for mail related * protocols. */ const unsigned long URI_FORBIDS_COOKIE_ACCESS = (1<<15); /** * URIs for this protocol require the webapps permission on the principal * when opening URIs for a different domain. See bug#773886 */ const unsigned long URI_CROSS_ORIGIN_NEEDS_WEBAPPS_PERM = (1<<16); /** * Channels for this protocol don't need to spin the event loop to handle * Open() and reads on the resulting stream. */ const unsigned long URI_SYNC_LOAD_IS_OK = (1<<17); /** * URI is secure to load in an https page and should not be blocked * by nsMixedContentBlocker */ const unsigned long URI_SAFE_TO_LOAD_IN_SECURE_CONTEXT = (1<<18); /** * This URI may be fetched and the contents are visible to anyone. This is * semantically equivalent to the resource being served with all-access CORS * headers. */ const unsigned long URI_FETCHABLE_BY_ANYONE = (1 << 19); }; %{C++ /** * Protocol handlers are registered with XPCOM under the following CONTRACTID prefix: */ #define NS_NETWORK_PROTOCOL_CONTRACTID_PREFIX "@mozilla.org/network/protocol;1?name=" /** * For example, "@mozilla.org/network/protocol;1?name=http" */ %}