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#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, or null to remove any mapping that
* might exist; 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);
/**
* Associates files with the given extension with the given Content-Type when
* served by this server, in the absence of any file-specific information
* about the desired Content-Type. If type is empty, removes any extant
* mapping, if one is present.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG
* if the given type is not a valid header field value, i.e. if it doesn't
* match the field-value production in RFC 2616
* @note
* No syntax checking is done of the given type, beyond ensuring that it is
* a valid header field value. Behavior when not given a string matching
* the media-type production in RFC 2616 section 3.7 is undefined.
* Implementations may choose to define specific behavior for types which do
* not match the production, such as for CGI functionality.
* @note
* Implementations MAY treat type as a trusted argument; users who fail to
* generate this string from trusted data risk security vulnerabilities.
*/
void registerContentType(in string extension, in string type);
/**
* 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);
};