nsIIDNService
| IID: | a592a60e-3621-4f19-a318-2bf233cfad3e |
| Inherits From: | nsISupports |
nsIIDNService interface.
IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) support. Provides facilities for manipulating IDN hostnames according to the specification set forth by the IETF.
IDN effort: http://www.ietf.org/html.characters/idn-charter.html http://www.i-dns.net
IDNA specification: http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-idna-06.txt
This interface is intended to be used as a service. To create an object implementing this interface:
var obj = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/idn-service;1"].
getService(Components.interfaces.nsIIDNService);This interface is implemented by the following components:
Methods
AUTF8String convertACEtoUTF8 ( ACString input )
AUTF8String convertToDisplayIDN ( AUTF8String input , out PRBool isASCII )
ACString convertUTF8toACE ( AUTF8String input )
PRBool isACE ( ACString input )
AUTF8String normalize ( AUTF8String input )
AUTF8String convertACEtoUTF8 ( ACString input )
This is the ToUnicode operation as specified in the IDNA proposal, with an additional step to encode the result in UTF-8. It takes an ACE-encoded hostname and performs ToUnicode to it, then encodes the resulting string into UTF8.
- Arguments:
- input
AUTF8String convertToDisplayIDN ( AUTF8String input , out PRBool isASCII )
Normalizes and converts a host to UTF-8 if the host is in the IDN whitelist, otherwise converts it to ACE. This is useful for display purposes and to ensure an encoding consistent with nsIURI::GetHost(). If the result is ASCII or ACE encoded, isASCII will be true.
- Arguments:
- input
- isASCII
ACString convertUTF8toACE ( AUTF8String input )
Prepares the input hostname according to IDNA ToASCII operation, the input hostname is assumed to be UTF8-encoded.
- Arguments:
- input
AUTF8String normalize ( AUTF8String input )
Performs the unicode normalization needed for hostnames in IDN, for callers that want early normalization.
- Arguments:
- input
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