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/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
/* vim:set ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 et: */
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* 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"
interface nsICancelable;
interface nsIProtocolProxyCallback;
interface nsIProtocolProxyFilter;
interface nsIProtocolProxyChannelFilter;
interface nsIProxyInfo;
interface nsIChannel;
interface nsIURI;
/**
* nsIProtocolProxyService provides methods to access information about
* various network proxies.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(ef57c8b6-e09d-4cd4-9222-2a5d2402e15d)]
interface nsIProtocolProxyService : nsISupports
{
/** Flag 1 << 0 is unused **/
/**
* When the proxy configuration is manual this flag may be passed to the
* resolve and asyncResolve methods to request to prefer the SOCKS proxy
* to HTTP ones.
*/
const unsigned long RESOLVE_PREFER_SOCKS_PROXY = 1 << 1;
/**
* When the proxy configuration is manual this flag may be passed to the
* resolve and asyncResolve methods to request to not analyze the uri's
* scheme specific proxy. When this flag is set the main HTTP proxy is the
* preferred one.
*
* NOTE: if RESOLVE_PREFER_SOCKS_PROXY is set then the SOCKS proxy is
* the preferred one.
*
* NOTE: if RESOLVE_PREFER_HTTPS_PROXY is set then the HTTPS proxy
* is the preferred one.
*/
const unsigned long RESOLVE_IGNORE_URI_SCHEME = 1 << 2;
/**
* When the proxy configuration is manual this flag may be passed to the
* resolve and asyncResolve methods to request to prefer the HTTPS proxy
* to the others HTTP ones.
*
* NOTE: RESOLVE_PREFER_SOCKS_PROXY takes precedence over this flag.
*
* NOTE: This flag implies RESOLVE_IGNORE_URI_SCHEME.
*/
const unsigned long RESOLVE_PREFER_HTTPS_PROXY =
(1 << 3) | RESOLVE_IGNORE_URI_SCHEME;
/**
* When the proxy configuration is manual this flag may be passed to the
* resolve and asyncResolve methods to that all methods will be tunneled via
* CONNECT through the http proxy.
*/
const unsigned long RESOLVE_ALWAYS_TUNNEL = (1 << 4);
/**
* This method returns via callback a nsIProxyInfo instance that identifies
* a proxy to be used for the given channel. Otherwise, this method returns
* null indicating that a direct connection should be used.
*
* @param aChannelOrURI
* The channel for which a proxy is to be found, or, if no channel is
* available, a URI indicating the same. This method will return
* NS_ERROR_NOINTERFACE if this argument isn't either an nsIURI or an
* nsIChannel.
* @param aFlags
* A bit-wise combination of the RESOLVE_ flags defined above. Pass
* 0 to specify the default behavior. Any additional bits that do
* not correspond to a RESOLVE_ flag are reserved for future use.
* @param aCallback
* The object to be notified when the result is available.
*
* @return An object that can be used to cancel the asychronous operation.
* If canceled, the cancelation status (aReason) will be forwarded
* to the callback's onProxyAvailable method via the aStatus param.
*
* NOTE: If this proxy is unavailable, getFailoverForProxy may be called
* to determine the correct secondary proxy to be used.
*
* NOTE: If the protocol handler for the given URI supports
* nsIProxiedProtocolHandler, then the nsIProxyInfo instance returned from
* resolve may be passed to the newProxiedChannel method to create a
* nsIChannel to the given URI that uses the specified proxy.
*
* NOTE: However, if the nsIProxyInfo type is "http", then it means that
* the given URI should be loaded using the HTTP protocol handler, which
* also supports nsIProxiedProtocolHandler.
*
* @see nsIProxiedProtocolHandler::newProxiedChannel
*/
nsICancelable asyncResolve(in nsISupports aChannelOrURI, in unsigned long aFlags,
in nsIProtocolProxyCallback aCallback);
/**
* This method may be called to construct a nsIProxyInfo instance from
* the given parameters. This method may be useful in conjunction with
* nsISocketTransportService::createTransport for creating, for example,
* a SOCKS connection.
*
* @param aType
* The proxy type. This is a string value that identifies the proxy
* type. Standard values include:
* "http" - specifies a HTTP proxy
* "https" - specifies HTTP proxying over TLS connection to proxy
* "socks" - specifies a SOCKS version 5 proxy
* "socks4" - specifies a SOCKS version 4 proxy
* "direct" - specifies a direct connection (useful for failover)
* The type name is case-insensitive. Other string values may be
* possible, and new types may be defined by a future version of
* this interface.
* @param aHost
* The proxy hostname or IP address.
* @param aPort
* The proxy port.
* @param aFlags
* Flags associated with this connection. See nsIProxyInfo.idl
* for currently defined flags.
* @param aFailoverTimeout
* Specifies the length of time (in seconds) to ignore this proxy if
* this proxy fails. Pass UINT32_MAX to specify the default
* timeout value, causing nsIProxyInfo::failoverTimeout to be
* assigned the default value.
* @param aFailoverProxy
* Specifies the next proxy to try if this proxy fails. This
* parameter may be null.
*/
nsIProxyInfo newProxyInfo(in ACString aType, in AUTF8String aHost,
in long aPort, in unsigned long aFlags,
in unsigned long aFailoverTimeout,
in nsIProxyInfo aFailoverProxy);
/**
* This method may be called to construct a nsIProxyInfo instance for
* with the specified username and password.
* Currently implemented for SOCKS proxies only.
* @param aType
* The proxy type. This is a string value that identifies the proxy
* type. Standard values include:
* "socks" - specifies a SOCKS version 5 proxy
* "socks4" - specifies a SOCKS version 4 proxy
* The type name is case-insensitive. Other string values may be
* possible, and new types may be defined by a future version of
* this interface.
* @param aHost
* The proxy hostname or IP address.
* @param aPort
* The proxy port.
* @param aUsername
* The proxy username
* @param aPassword
* The proxy password
* @param aFlags
* Flags associated with this connection. See nsIProxyInfo.idl
* for currently defined flags.
* @param aFailoverTimeout
* Specifies the length of time (in seconds) to ignore this proxy if
* this proxy fails. Pass UINT32_MAX to specify the default
* timeout value, causing nsIProxyInfo::failoverTimeout to be
* assigned the default value.
* @param aFailoverProxy
* Specifies the next proxy to try if this proxy fails. This
* parameter may be null.
*/
nsIProxyInfo newProxyInfoWithAuth(in ACString aType, in AUTF8String aHost,
in long aPort,
in ACString aUsername, in ACString aPassword,
in unsigned long aFlags,
in unsigned long aFailoverTimeout,
in nsIProxyInfo aFailoverProxy);
/**
* If the proxy identified by aProxyInfo is unavailable for some reason,
* this method may be called to access an alternate proxy that may be used
* instead. As a side-effect, this method may affect future result values
* from resolve/asyncResolve as well as from getFailoverForProxy.
*
* @param aProxyInfo
* The proxy that was unavailable.
* @param aURI
* The URI that was originally passed to resolve/asyncResolve.
* @param aReason
* The error code corresponding to the proxy failure. This value
* may be used to tune the delay before this proxy is used again.
*
* @throw NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if there is no alternate proxy available.
*/
nsIProxyInfo getFailoverForProxy(in nsIProxyInfo aProxyInfo,
in nsIURI aURI,
in nsresult aReason);
/**
* This method may be used to register a proxy filter instance. Each proxy
* filter is registered with an associated position that determines the
* order in which the filters are applied (starting from position 0). When
* resolve/asyncResolve is called, it generates a list of proxies for the
* given URI, and then it applies the proxy filters. The filters have the
* opportunity to modify the list of proxies.
*
* If two filters register for the same position, then the filters will be
* visited in the order in which they were registered.
*
* If the filter is already registered, then its position will be updated.
*
* After filters have been run, any disabled or disallowed proxies will be
* removed from the list. A proxy is disabled if it had previously failed-
* over to another proxy (see getFailoverForProxy). A proxy is disallowed,
* for example, if it is a HTTP proxy and the nsIProtocolHandler for the
* queried URI does not permit proxying via HTTP.
*
* If a nsIProtocolHandler disallows all proxying, then filters will never
* have a chance to intercept proxy requests for such URLs.
*
* @param aFilter
* The nsIProtocolProxyFilter instance to be registered.
* @param aPosition
* The position of the filter.
*
* NOTE: It is possible to construct filters that compete with one another
* in undesirable ways. This API does not attempt to protect against such
* problems. It is recommended that any extensions that choose to call
* this method make their position value configurable at runtime (perhaps
* via the preferences service).
*/
void registerFilter(in nsIProtocolProxyFilter aFilter,
in unsigned long aPosition);
/**
* Similar to registerFilter, but accepts an nsIProtocolProxyChannelFilter,
* which selects proxies according to channel rather than URI.
*
* @param aFilter
* The nsIProtocolProxyChannelFilter instance to be registered.
* @param aPosition
* The position of the filter.
*/
void registerChannelFilter(in nsIProtocolProxyChannelFilter aFilter,
in unsigned long aPosition);
/**
* This method may be used to unregister a proxy filter instance. All
* filters will be automatically unregistered at XPCOM shutdown.
*
* @param aFilter
* The nsIProtocolProxyFilter instance to be unregistered.
*/
void unregisterFilter(in nsIProtocolProxyFilter aFilter);
/**
* This method may be used to unregister a proxy channel filter instance. All
* filters will be automatically unregistered at XPCOM shutdown.
*
* @param aFilter
* The nsIProtocolProxyChannelFilter instance to be unregistered.
*/
void unregisterChannelFilter(in nsIProtocolProxyChannelFilter aFilter);
/**
* These values correspond to the possible integer values for the
* network.proxy.type preference.
*/
const unsigned long PROXYCONFIG_DIRECT = 0;
const unsigned long PROXYCONFIG_MANUAL = 1;
const unsigned long PROXYCONFIG_PAC = 2;
const unsigned long PROXYCONFIG_WPAD = 4;
const unsigned long PROXYCONFIG_SYSTEM = 5;
/**
* This attribute specifies the current type of proxy configuration.
*/
readonly attribute unsigned long proxyConfigType;
};