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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.
 */
[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);
};