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nsIHttpRequestHandler
| IID: | 2bbb4db7-d285-42b3-a3ce-142b8cc7e139 |
| Inherits From: | nsISupports |
Methods
void handle ( nsIHttpRequestMetadata metadata , nsIHttpResponse response )
void handle ( nsIHttpRequestMetadata metadata , nsIHttpResponse response )
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).
- Arguments:
- metadata: data representing an HTTP request
- 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
References
This interface is passed as an argument to the following methods:
nsIHttpServer.registerErrorHandler, nsIHttpServer.registerPathHandler, nsIHttpServer.setIndexHandler
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