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#ifndef nsIProtocolURLFactory_h___
#define nsIProtocolURLFactory_h___

#include "nsISupports.h"
#include "nscore.h"

class nsString;
class nsIURI;
class nsILoadGroup;

#define NS_IPROTOCOLURLFACTORY_IID                   \
{ /* aed57ad0-705e-11d2-8166-006008119d7a */         \
    0xaed57ad0,                                      \
    0x705e,                                          \
    0x11d2,                                          \
    {0x81, 0x66, 0x00, 0x60, 0x08, 0x11, 0x9d, 0x7a} \
}

/**
 * nsIProtocolURLFactory deals with protocol-specific URL parsing. It 
 * constructs a URL that implements the nsIURI interface and that gets
 * loaded by a corresponding protocol handler.
 *
 * Note that one nsIProtocolURLFactory implementation might handle the
 * URL syntax for several different protocols, e.g. http, https, file --
 * all of these protocol's URL syntax looks the same. 
 */
class nsIProtocolURLFactory : public nsISupports
{
public:

    NS_IMETHOD CreateURL(nsIURI* *aResult,
                         const nsString& aSpec,
                         const nsIURI* aContextURL = nsnull,
                         nsISupports* aContainer = nsnull,
                         nsILoadGroup* aGroup = nsnull) = 0;
};

#endif /* nsIIProtocolURLFactory_h___ */