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If you do not delete * the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under * the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL. * * ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */ #include "nsIServerSocket.idl" #include "nsIPropertyBag.idl" interface nsILocalFile; interface nsISimpleEnumerator; interface nsIOutputStream; interface nsIHttpServer; interface nsIHttpRequestHandler; interface nsIHttpRequestMetadata; interface nsIHttpResponse; /** * An interface which represents an HTTP server. */ [scriptable, uuid(5520f79e-ecd5-4c40-843b-97ee13a23747)] interface nsIHttpServer : nsIServerSocketListener { /** * Starts up this server, listening upon the given port. This method may * throw if the process does not have sufficient privileges to open a socket * for the given port, and it also throws when called upon a server which has * already been started. * * @param port * the port upon which listening should happen, or -1 if no specific port is * desired */ void start(in long port); /** * Shuts down this server if it is running; if it is not, this method is a * no-op. * * This method will do its best to return after the socket in this * server has been closed and all pending requests have completed being * served, but this may or may not actually happen, since in some * implementations this may not actually be possible. Implementations which * can make this promise should make it explicit in implementation * documentation. */ void stop(); /** * Associates the local file represented by the string file with all requests * which match request. * * @param path * the path which is to be mapped to the given file; must begin with "/" and * be a valid URI path (i.e., no query string, hash reference, etc.) * @param file * the file to serve for the given path; this file must exist for the * lifetime of the server */ void registerFile(in string path, in nsILocalFile file); /** * Registers a custom path handler. * * @param path * the path on the server (beginning with a "/") which is to be handled by * handler; this path must not include a query string or hash component; it * also should usually be canonicalized, since most browsers will do so * before sending otherwise-matching requests * @param handler * an object which will handle any requests for the given path, or null to * remove any existing handler; if while the server is running the handler * throws an exception while responding to a request, an HTTP 500 response * will be returned * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG * if path does not begin with a "/" */ void registerPathHandler(in string path, in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); /** * Registers a custom error page handler. * * @param code * the error code which is to be handled by handler * @param handler * an object which will handle any requests which generate the given status * code, or null to remove any existing handler. If the handler throws an * exception during server operation, fallback is to the genericized error * handler (the x00 version), then to 500, using a user-defined error * handler if one exists or the server default handler otherwise. Fallback * will never occur from a user-provided handler that throws to the same * handler as provided by the server, e.g. a throwing user 404 falls back to * 400, not a server-provided 404 that might not throw. * @note * If the error handler handles HTTP 500 and throws, behavior is undefined. */ void registerErrorHandler(in unsigned long code, in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); /** * Maps all requests to paths beneath path to the corresponding file beneath * dir. * * @param path * the absolute path on the server against which requests will be served * from dir (e.g., "/", "/foo/", etc.); must begin and end with a forward * slash * @param dir * the directory to be used to serve all requests for paths underneath path * (except those further overridden by another, deeper path registered with * another directory); if null, any current mapping for the given path is * removed * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG * if dir is non-null and does not exist or is not a directory, or if path * does not begin with and end with a forward slash */ void registerDirectory(in string path, in nsILocalFile dir); /** * Sets the handler used to display the contents of a directory if * the directory contains no index page. * * @param handler * an object which will handle any requests for directories which * do not contain index pages, or null to reset to the default * index handler; if while the server is running the handler * throws an exception while responding to a request, an HTTP 500 * response will be returned. An nsIFile corresponding to the * directory is available from the metadata object passed to the * handler, under the key "directory". */ void setIndexHandler(in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); }; /** * A representation of a handler for HTTP requests. The handler is used by * calling its .handle method with data for an incoming request; it is the * handler's job to use that data as it sees fit to make the desired response. * * @note * This interface uses the [function] attribute, so you can pass a * script-defined function with the functionality of handle() to any * method which has a nsIHttpRequestHandler parameter, instead of wrapping * it in an otherwise empty object. */ [scriptable, function, uuid(2bbb4db7-d285-42b3-a3ce-142b8cc7e139)] interface nsIHttpRequestHandler : nsISupports { /** * Processes the HTTP request represented by metadata and initializes the * passed-in response to reflect the correct HTTP response. * * Note that in some uses of nsIHttpRequestHandler, this method is required to * not throw an exception; in the general case, however, this method may throw * an exception (causing an HTTP 500 response to occur). * * @param metadata * data representing an HTTP request * @param response * an initially-empty response which must be modified to reflect the data * which should be sent as the response to the request described by metadata */ void handle(in nsIHttpRequestMetadata metadata, in nsIHttpResponse response); }; /** * A representation of the data included in an HTTP request. */ [scriptable, uuid(3a899b17-b6eb-4333-8ef4-912df454a551)] interface nsIHttpRequestMetadata : nsIPropertyBag { /** * The request type for this request (see RFC 2616, section 5.1.1). */ readonly attribute string method; /** * The host of the data being requested (e.g. "localhost" for the * http://localhost:8080/file resource). Note that the relevant port on the * host is specified in this.port. */ readonly attribute string host; /** * The port on the server on which the request was received. */ readonly attribute unsigned long port; /** * The requested path, without any query string (e.g. "/dir/file.txt"). It is * guaranteed to begin with a "/". This string is in the */ readonly attribute string path; /** * The URL-encoded query string associated with this request, not including * the initial "?". */ readonly attribute string queryString; /** * A string containing the HTTP version of the request (i.e., "1.1"). Leading * zeros for either component of the version will be omitted. (In other * words, if the request contains the version "1.01", this attribute will be * "1.1"; see RFC 2616, section 3.1.) */ readonly attribute string httpVersion; /** * Returns the value for the header in this request specified by fieldName. * * @param fieldName * the name of the field whose value is to be gotten; note that since HTTP * header field names are case-insensitive, this method produces equivalent * results for "HeAdER" and "hEADer" as fieldName * @returns * the field value for the given header; note that this value may be * normalized (e.g., leading/trailing whitespace removed from the value [or * from the values which make this up, if the header is a comma-separated * list of values], whitespace runs compressed to single spaces, etc.) * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG * if fieldName does not constitute a valid header field name * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE * if the given header does not exist in this */ string getHeader(in string fieldName); /** * Returns true if a header with the given field name exists in this, false * otherwise. * * @param fieldName * the field name whose existence is to be determined in this; note that * since HTTP header field names are case-insensitive, this method produces * equivalent results for "HeAdER" and "hEADer" as fieldName * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG * if fieldName does not constitute a valid header field name */ boolean hasHeader(in string fieldName); /** * An nsISimpleEnumerator of nsISupportsStrings over the names of the headers * in this request. The header field names in the enumerator may not * necessarily have the same case as they do in the request itself. */ readonly attribute nsISimpleEnumerator headers; // XXX expose request body here! }; /** * Represents an HTTP response, as described in RFC 2616, section 6. */ [scriptable, uuid(a2aaaff7-03bd-43b6-b460-94671e288093)] interface nsIHttpResponse : nsISupports { /** * Sets the status line for this. If this method is never called on this, the * status line defaults to "HTTP/", followed by the server's default HTTP * version (e.g. "1.1"), followed by " 200 OK". * * @param httpVersion * the HTTP version of this, as a string (e.g. "1.1"); if null, the server * default is used * @param code * the numeric HTTP status code for this * @param description * a human-readable description of code; may be null if no description is * desired * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG * if httpVersion is not a valid HTTP version string, statusCode is greater * than 999, or description contains invalid characters */ void setStatusLine(in string httpVersion, in unsigned short statusCode, in string description); /** * Sets the specified header in this. * * @param name * the name of the header; must match the field-name production per RFC 2616 * @param value * the value of the header; must match the field-value production per RFC * 2616 * @param merge * when true, if the given header already exists in this, the values passed * to this function will be merged into the existing header, per RFC 2616 * header semantics; when false, if the given header already exists in this, * it is overwritten with the passed-in values; if the header doesn't exist * in this, it is set regardless of the value of this parameter * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG * if name or value is not a valid header component */ void setHeader(in string name, in string value, in boolean merge); /** * A stream to which data appearing in the body of this response should be * written. */ readonly attribute nsIOutputStream bodyOutputStream; /** * Write a string to the response's output stream. * * @note * This method is only guaranteed to work with ASCII data. */ void write(in string data); };