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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; 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 "nsIChannel.idl"
interface nsIHttpHeaderVisitor;
/**
* nsIHttpChannel
*
* This interface allows for the modification of HTTP request parameters and
* the inspection of the resulting HTTP response status and headers when they
* become available.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(a8bed710-653c-4ea4-9747-a629cc482cf8)]
interface nsIHttpChannel : nsIChannel
{
/**************************************************************************
* REQUEST CONFIGURATION
*
* Modifying request parameters after asyncOpen has been called is an error.
*/
/**
* Set/get the HTTP request method (default is "GET"). Both setter and
* getter are case sensitive.
*
* This attribute may only be set before the channel is opened.
*
* NOTE: The data for a "POST" or "PUT" request can be configured via
* nsIUploadChannel; however, after setting the upload data, it may be
* necessary to set the request method explicitly. The documentation
* for nsIUploadChannel has further details.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS if set after the channel has been opened.
*/
attribute ACString requestMethod;
/**
* Get/set the HTTP referrer URI. This is the address (URI) of the
* resource from which this channel's URI was obtained (see RFC2616 section
* 14.36).
*
* This attribute may only be set before the channel is opened.
*
* NOTE: The channel may silently refuse to set the Referer header if the
* URI does not pass certain security checks (e.g., a "https://" URL will
* never be sent as the referrer for a plaintext HTTP request). The
* implementation is not required to throw an exception when the referrer
* URI is rejected.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS if set after the channel has been opened.
*/
attribute nsIURI referrer;
/**
* Referrer policies. See ReferrerPolicy.h for more details.
*/
/* default state, doesn't send referrer from https->http */
const unsigned long REFERRER_POLICY_NO_REFERRER_WHEN_DOWNGRADE = 0;
/* sends no referrer */
const unsigned long REFERRER_POLICY_NO_REFERRER = 1;
/* only sends the origin of the referring URL */
const unsigned long REFERRER_POLICY_ORIGIN = 2;
/* same as default, but reduced to ORIGIN when cross-origin. */
const unsigned long REFERRER_POLICY_ORIGIN_WHEN_XORIGIN = 3;
/* always sends the referrer, even on downgrade. */
const unsigned long REFERRER_POLICY_UNSAFE_URL = 4;
/**
* Get the HTTP referrer policy. The policy is retrieved from the meta
* referrer tag, which can be one of many values (see ReferrerPolicy.h for
* more details).
*/
readonly attribute unsigned long referrerPolicy;
/**
* Set the HTTP referrer URI with a referrer policy.
*/
void setReferrerWithPolicy(in nsIURI referrer, in unsigned long referrerPolicy);
/**
* Get the value of a particular request header.
*
* @param aHeader
* The case-insensitive name of the request header to query (e.g.,
* "Cache-Control").
*
* @return the value of the request header.
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if the header is not set.
*/
ACString getRequestHeader(in ACString aHeader);
/**
* Set the value of a particular request header.
*
* This method allows, for example, the cookies module to add "Cookie"
* headers to the outgoing HTTP request.
*
* This method may only be called before the channel is opened.
*
* @param aHeader
* The case-insensitive name of the request header to set (e.g.,
* "Cookie").
* @param aValue
* The request header value to set (e.g., "X=1").
* @param aMerge
* If true, the new header value will be merged with any existing
* values for the specified header. This flag is ignored if the
* specified header does not support merging (e.g., the "Content-
* Type" header can only have one value). The list of headers for
* which this flag is ignored is an implementation detail. If this
* flag is false, then the header value will be replaced with the
* contents of |aValue|.
*
* If aValue is empty and aMerge is false, the header will be cleared.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS if called after the channel has been
* opened.
*/
void setRequestHeader(in ACString aHeader,
in ACString aValue,
in boolean aMerge);
/**
* Call this method to visit all request headers. Calling setRequestHeader
* while visiting request headers has undefined behavior. Don't do it!
*
* @param aVisitor
* the header visitor instance.
*/
void visitRequestHeaders(in nsIHttpHeaderVisitor aVisitor);
/**
* This attribute is a hint to the channel to indicate whether or not
* the underlying HTTP transaction should be allowed to be pipelined
* with other transactions. This should be set to FALSE, for example,
* if the application knows that the corresponding document is likely
* to be very large.
*
* This attribute is true by default, though other factors may prevent
* pipelining.
*
* This attribute may only be set before the channel is opened.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if set after the channel has been opened.
*/
attribute boolean allowPipelining;
/**
* This attribute of the channel indicates whether or not
* the underlying HTTP transaction should be honor stored Strict Transport
* Security directives for its principal. It defaults to true. Using
* OCSP to bootstrap the HTTPs is the likely use case for setting it to
* false.
*
* This attribute may only be set before the channel is opened.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS or NS_ERROR_ALREADY_OPENED
* if called after the channel has been opened.
*/
attribute boolean allowSTS;
/**
* This attribute specifies the number of redirects this channel is allowed
* to make. If zero, the channel will fail to redirect and will generate
* a NS_ERROR_REDIRECT_LOOP failure status.
*
* NOTE: An HTTP redirect results in a new channel being created. If the
* new channel supports nsIHttpChannel, then it will be assigned a value
* to its |redirectionLimit| attribute one less than the value of the
* redirected channel's |redirectionLimit| attribute. The initial value
* for this attribute may be a configurable preference (depending on the
* implementation).
*/
attribute unsigned long redirectionLimit;
/**************************************************************************
* RESPONSE INFO
*
* Accessing response info before the onStartRequest event is an error.
*/
/**
* Get the HTTP response code (e.g., 200).
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
readonly attribute unsigned long responseStatus;
/**
* Get the HTTP response status text (e.g., "OK").
*
* NOTE: This returns the raw (possibly 8-bit) text from the server. There
* are no assumptions made about the charset of the returned text. You
* have been warned!
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
readonly attribute ACString responseStatusText;
/**
* Returns true if the HTTP response code indicates success. The value of
* nsIRequest::status will be NS_OK even when processing a 404 response
* because a 404 response may include a message body that (in some cases)
* should be shown to the user.
*
* Use this attribute to distinguish server error pages from normal pages,
* instead of comparing the response status manually against the set of
* valid response codes, if that is required by your application.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
readonly attribute boolean requestSucceeded;
/**
* Get the value of a particular response header.
*
* @param aHeader
* The case-insensitive name of the response header to query (e.g.,
* "Set-Cookie").
*
* @return the value of the response header.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest) or if the header is
* not set in the response.
*/
ACString getResponseHeader(in ACString header);
/**
* Set the value of a particular response header.
*
* This method allows, for example, the HTML content sink to inform the HTTP
* channel about HTTP-EQUIV headers found in HTML <META> tags.
*
* @param aHeader
* The case-insensitive name of the response header to set (e.g.,
* "Cache-control").
* @param aValue
* The response header value to set (e.g., "no-cache").
* @param aMerge
* If true, the new header value will be merged with any existing
* values for the specified header. This flag is ignored if the
* specified header does not support merging (e.g., the "Content-
* Type" header can only have one value). The list of headers for
* which this flag is ignored is an implementation detail. If this
* flag is false, then the header value will be replaced with the
* contents of |aValue|.
*
* If aValue is empty and aMerge is false, the header will be cleared.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
* @throws NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE if changing the value of this response
* header is not allowed.
*/
void setResponseHeader(in ACString header,
in ACString value,
in boolean merge);
/**
* Call this method to visit all response headers. Calling
* setResponseHeader while visiting response headers has undefined
* behavior. Don't do it!
*
* @param aVisitor
* the header visitor instance.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
void visitResponseHeaders(in nsIHttpHeaderVisitor aVisitor);
/**
* Returns true if the server sent a "Cache-Control: no-store" response
* header.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
boolean isNoStoreResponse();
/**
* Returns true if the server sent the equivalent of a "Cache-control:
* no-cache" response header. Equivalent response headers include:
* "Pragma: no-cache", "Expires: 0", and "Expires" with a date value
* in the past relative to the value of the "Date" header.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
boolean isNoCacheResponse();
/**
* Returns true if the server sent a "Cache-Control: private" response
* header.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
boolean isPrivateResponse();
/**
* Instructs the channel to immediately redirect to a new destination.
* Can only be called on channels not yet opened.
*
* This method provides no explicit conflict resolution. The last
* caller to call it wins.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_ALREADY_OPENED if called after the channel
* has been opened.
*/
void redirectTo(in nsIURI aNewURI);
};