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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
#include "nsIChannel.idl"
interface nsIHttpHeaderVisitor;
interface nsIReferrerInfo;
%{C++
#include "GeckoProfiler.h"
%}
native UniqueProfileChunkedBuffer(mozilla::UniquePtr<mozilla::ProfileChunkedBuffer>);
/**
* 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.
*/
[builtinclass, scriptable, uuid(c5a4a073-4539-49c7-a3f2-cec3f0619c6c)]
interface nsIHttpChannel : nsIIdentChannel
{
/**************************************************************************
* 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.
*/
[must_use] attribute ACString requestMethod;
/**
* Get/set the referrer information. This contains the referrer (URI) of the
* resource from which this channel's URI was obtained (see RFC2616 section
* 14.36) and the referrer policy applied to the referrer.
*
* This attribute may only be set before the channel is opened.
*
* Setting this attribute will clone new referrerInfo object by default.
*
* 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.
* @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if used for setting referrer during
* visitRequestHeaders. Getting the value will not throw.
*/
[must_use, infallible] attribute nsIReferrerInfo referrerInfo;
/**
* Set referrer Info without clone new object.
* Use this api only when you are passing a referrerInfo to the channel with
* 1-1 relationship. Don't use this api if you will reuse the referrer info
* object later. For example when to use:
* channel.setReferrerInfoWithoutClone(new ReferrerInfo());
*
*/
[must_use, noscript]
void setReferrerInfoWithoutClone(in nsIReferrerInfo aReferrerInfo);
/**
* Returns the network protocol used to fetch the resource as identified
* by the ALPN Protocol ID.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called before the response
* has been received (before onStartRequest).
*/
[must_use] readonly attribute ACString protocolVersion;
/**
* size consumed by the response header fields and the response payload body
*/
[must_use] readonly attribute uint64_t transferSize;
/**
* size consumed by the request header fields and the request payload body
*/
[must_use] readonly attribute uint64_t requestSize;
/**
* The size of the message body received by the client,
* after removing any applied content-codings
*/
[must_use] readonly attribute uint64_t decodedBodySize;
/**
* The size in octets of the payload body, prior to removing content-codings
*/
[must_use] readonly attribute uint64_t encodedBodySize;
/**
* 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.
*/
[must_use] 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.
* @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if called during visitRequestHeaders.
*/
[must_use] void setRequestHeader(in ACString aHeader,
in ACString aValue,
in boolean aMerge);
/**
* Creates and sets new ReferrerInfo object
* @param aUrl referrer url
* @param aPolicy referrer policy of the created object
* @param aSendReferrer indicates if the referrer should not be sent or not
* even when it's available.
*/
[must_use] void setNewReferrerInfo(in ACString aUrl,
in nsIReferrerInfo_ReferrerPolicyIDL aPolicy,
in boolean aSendReferrer);
/**
* Set a request header with empty value.
*
* This should be used with caution in the cases where the behavior of
* setRequestHeader ignoring empty header values is undesirable.
*
* 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").
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS if called after the channel has been
* opened.
* @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if called during visitRequestHeaders.
*/
[must_use] void setEmptyRequestHeader(in ACString aHeader);
/**
* 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.
*/
[must_use] void visitRequestHeaders(in nsIHttpHeaderVisitor aVisitor);
/**
* Call this method to visit all non-default (UA-provided) request headers.
* Calling setRequestHeader while visiting request headers has undefined
* behavior. Don't do it!
*
* @param aVisitor
* the header visitor instance.
*/
[must_use]
void visitNonDefaultRequestHeaders(in nsIHttpHeaderVisitor aVisitor);
/**
* Call this method to see if we need to strip the request body headers
* for the new http channel. This should be called during redirection.
*/
[must_use] boolean ShouldStripRequestBodyHeader(in ACString aMethod);
/**
* 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.
*/
[must_use] 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).
*/
[must_use] 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).
*/
[must_use] 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).
*/
[must_use] 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).
*/
[must_use] readonly attribute boolean requestSucceeded;
/** Indicates whether channel should be treated as the main one for the
* current document. If manually set to true, will always remain true. Otherwise,
* will be true if LOAD_DOCUMENT_URI is set in the channel's loadflags.
*/
[must_use] attribute boolean isMainDocumentChannel;
/**
* 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.
*/
[must_use] 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.
* @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if called during visitResponseHeaders,
* VisitOriginalResponseHeaders or getOriginalResponseHeader.
*/
[must_use] 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).
*/
[must_use] void visitResponseHeaders(in nsIHttpHeaderVisitor aVisitor);
/**
* Get the value(s) of a particular response header in the form and order
* it has been received from the remote peer. There can be multiple headers
* with the same name.
*
* @param aHeader
* The case-insensitive name of the response header to query (e.g.,
* "Set-Cookie").
*
* @param aVisitor
* the header visitor instance.
*
* @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.
*/
[must_use] void getOriginalResponseHeader(in ACString aHeader,
in nsIHttpHeaderVisitor aVisitor);
/**
* Call this method to visit all response headers in the form and order as
* they have been received from the remote peer.
* 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).
*/
[must_use]
void visitOriginalResponseHeaders(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).
*/
[must_use] 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).
*/
[must_use] 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).
*/
[must_use] boolean isPrivateResponse();
/**
* Instructs the channel to immediately redirect to a new destination.
* Can only be called on channels that have not yet called their
* listener's OnStartRequest(). Generally that means the latest time
* this can be used is one of:
* "http-on-examine-response"
* "http-on-examine-merged-response"
* "http-on-examine-cached-response"
*
* When non-null URL is set before AsyncOpen:
* we attempt to redirect to the targetURI before we even start building
* and sending the request to the cache or the origin server.
* If the redirect is vetoed, we fail the channel.
*
* When set between AsyncOpen and first call to OnStartRequest being called:
* we attempt to redirect before we start delivery of network or cached
* response to the listener. If vetoed, we continue with delivery of
* the original content to the channel listener.
*
* When passed aTargetURI is null the channel behaves normally (can be
* rewritten).
*
* This method provides no explicit conflict resolution. The last
* caller to call it wins.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called after the channel has already
* started to deliver the content to its listener.
*/
[must_use] void redirectTo(in nsIURI aTargetURI);
/**
* Flags a channel to be upgraded to HTTPS.
*
* Upgrading to a secure channel must happen before or during
* "http-on-modify-request". If redirectTo is called early as well, it
* will win and upgradeToSecure will be a no-op.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if called after the channel has already
* started to deliver the content to its listener.
*/
[must_use] void upgradeToSecure();
/**
* Identifies the request context for this load.
*/
[noscript, must_use] attribute uint64_t requestContextID;
/**
* ID of the top-level document's inner window. Identifies the content
* this channels is being load in.
*/
[must_use] attribute uint64_t topLevelContentWindowId;
/**
* ID of the browser for this channel.
*
* NOTE: The setter of this attribute is currently for xpcshell test only.
* Don't alter it otherwise.
*/
[must_use] attribute uint64_t browserId;
/**
* In e10s, the information that the CORS response blocks the load is in the
* parent, which doesn't know the true window id of the request, so we may
* need to proxy the request to the child.
*
* @param aMessage
* The message to print in the console.
*
* @param aCategory
* The category under which the message should be displayed.
*
* @param aIsWarning
* When true, this is a warning message.
*/
void logBlockedCORSRequest(in AString aMessage,
in ACString aCategory,
in boolean aIsWarning);
void logMimeTypeMismatch(in ACString aMessageName,
in boolean aWarning,
in AString aURL,
in AString aContentType);
[notxpcom, nostdcall] void setSource(in UniqueProfileChunkedBuffer aSource);
[must_use] attribute AString classicScriptHintCharset;
[must_use] attribute AString documentCharacterSet;
/**
* Update the requestObserversCalled boolean flag.
*
* Used by WebDriver BiDi network interception to modify properties of the
* request such as `method` or `body` as late as possible.
*/
[must_use] attribute boolean requestObserversCalled;
};