/***************************************************************************** * vlc_url.h: URL related macros ***************************************************************************** * Copyright (C) 2002-2006 VLC authors and VideoLAN * $Id$ * * Authors: Christophe Massiot * Rémi Denis-Courmont * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. *****************************************************************************/ #ifndef VLC_URL_H # define VLC_URL_H /** * \file * This file defines functions for manipulating URL in vlc * * \ingroup strings * @{ */ /** * Converts local path to URL. * * Builds a URL representation from a local UTF-8 null-terminated file path. * * @param path file path * @param scheme URI scheme to use (default is auto: "file", "fd" or "smb") * @return a heap-allocated URI string on success * or NULL in case of error (errno will be set accordingly) */ VLC_API char *vlc_path2uri(const char *path, const char *scheme) VLC_MALLOC; /** * Converts a URI to a local path. * * Builds a local path (UTF-8-encoded null-terminated string) from a URI if * the URI scheme allows. * * @param url URI * @return a heap-allocated string or success * or NULL on error */ VLC_API char *vlc_uri2path(const char *url) VLC_MALLOC; /** * Decodes an URI component in place. * * Decodes one null-terminated UTF-8 URI component to aa null-terminated UTF-8 * string in place. * * See also vlc_uri_decode_duplicate() for the not-in-place variant. * * \warning This function does NOT decode entire URIs. * URI can only be decoded (and encoded) one component at a time * (e.g. the host name, one directory, the file name). * Complete URIs are always "encoded" (or they are syntaxically invalid). * See IETF RFC3986, especially §2.4 for details. * * \note URI encoding is different from Javascript escaping. Especially, * white spaces and Unicode non-ASCII code points are encoded differently. * * \param str null-terminated component * \return str is returned on success. NULL if str was not properly encoded. */ VLC_API char *vlc_uri_decode(char *str); /** * Decodes an URI component. * * See also vlc_uri_decode() for the in-place variant. * * \return a heap-allocated string on success or NULL on error. */ VLC_API char *vlc_uri_decode_duplicate(const char *str) VLC_MALLOC; /** * Encodes a URI component. * * Substitutes URI-unsafe, URI delimiters and non-ASCII characters into their * URI-encoded URI-safe representation. See also IETF RFC3986 §2. * * @param str nul-terminated UTF-8 representation of the component. * @note Obviously, a URI containing nul bytes cannot be passed. * @return heap-allocated string, or NULL if out of memory. */ VLC_API char *vlc_uri_encode(const char *str) VLC_MALLOC; /** * Composes an URI. * * Converts a decomposed/parsed URI structure (\ref vlc_url_t) into a * nul-terminated URI literal string. * * See also IETF RFC3986 section 5.3 for details. * * \bug URI fragments (i.e. HTML anchors) are not handled * * \return a heap-allocated nul-terminated string or NULL if out of memory */ VLC_API char *vlc_uri_compose(const vlc_url_t *) VLC_MALLOC; /** * Resolves an URI reference. * * Resolves an URI reference relative to a base URI. * If the reference is an absolute URI, then this function simply returns a * copy of the URI reference. * * \param base base URI (as a nul-terminated string) * \param ref URI reference (also as a nul-terminated string) * * \return a heap-allocated nul-terminated string representing the resolved * absolute URI, or NULL if out of memory. */ VLC_API char *vlc_uri_resolve(const char *base, const char *ref) VLC_MALLOC; /** * Fixes up a URI string. * * Attempts to convert a nul-terminated string into a syntactically valid URI. * If the string is, or may be, a syntactically valid URI, an exact copy is * returned. In any case, the result will only contain URI-safe and URI * delimiter characters (generic delimiters or sub-delimiters) and all percent * signs will be followed by two hexadecimal characters. * * @return a heap-allocated string, or NULL if on out of memory. */ VLC_API char *vlc_uri_fixup(const char *) VLC_MALLOC; struct vlc_url_t { char *psz_protocol; char *psz_username; char *psz_password; char *psz_host; unsigned i_port; char *psz_path; char *psz_option; char *psz_buffer; /* to be freed */ char *psz_pathbuffer; /* to be freed */ }; /** * Parses an URI or IRI. * * Extracts the following parts from an URI string: * - scheme (i.e. protocol), * - user (deprecated), * - password (also deprecated), * - host name or IP address literal, * - port number, * - path (including the filename preceded by any and all directories) * - request parameters (excluding the leading question mark '?'). * * The function accepts URIs, as well as UTF-8-encoded IRIs. For IRIs, the hier * part (specifically, the host name) is assumed to be an IDN and is decoded to * ASCII according, so it can be used for DNS resolution. If the host is an * IPv6 address literal, brackets are stripped. * * Any missing part is set to nul. For historical reasons, the target structure * is always initialized, even if parsing the URI string fails. * * On error, errno is set to one of the following value: * - ENOMEM in case of memory allocation failure, * - EINVAL in case of syntax error in the input string. * * \bug The URI fragment is discarded if present. * * \note This function allocates memory. vlc_UrlClean() must be used free * associated the allocations, even if the function fails. * * \param url structure of URL parts [OUT] * \param str nul-terminated URL string to split * \retval 0 success * \retval -1 failure */ VLC_API int vlc_UrlParse(vlc_url_t *url, const char *str); /** * Parses an URI or IRI and fix up the path part. * * \see vlc_UrlParse * \see vlc_uri_fixup */ VLC_API int vlc_UrlParseFixup(vlc_url_t *url, const char *str); /** * Releases resources allocated by vlc_UrlParse(). */ VLC_API void vlc_UrlClean(vlc_url_t *); /** @} */ #endif