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+/* This file is part of the KDE libraries
+ * Copyright (C) 1999 Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library 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
+ * Library General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+ * along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to
+ * the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ **/
+
+#ifndef __kurl_h__
+#define __kurl_h__ "$Id$"
+
+#include <qstring.h>
+#include <qvaluelist.h>
+
+class QUrl;
+class QStringList;
+template <typename K, typename V> class QMap;
+
+class KURLPrivate;
+/**
+ * Represents and parses a URL.
+ *
+ * A prototypical URL looks like:
+ * <pre>
+ * protocol:/user:password\@hostname:port/path/to/file.ext#reference
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * KURL has some restrictions regarding the path
+ * encoding. KURL works internally with the decoded path and
+ * and encoded query. For example,
+ * <pre>
+ * http://localhost/cgi-bin/test%20me.pl?cmd=Hello%20you
+ * </pre>
+ * would result in a decoded path "/cgi-bin/test me.pl"
+ * and in the encoded query "?cmd=Hello%20you".
+ * Since path is internally always encoded you may @em not use
+ * "%00" in the path, although this is OK for the query.
+ *
+ * @author Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>
+ */
+class KURL
+{
+public:
+ enum AdjustementFlags
+ {
+ NoAdjustements = 0,
+ StripFileProtocol = 1
+ };
+
+ /**
+ * KURL::List is a QValueList that contains KURLs with a few
+ * convenience methods.
+ * @see KURL
+ * @see QValueList
+ */
+ class List : public QValueList<KURL>
+ {
+ public:
+ /**
+ * Creates an empty List.
+ */
+ List() { }
+ /**
+ * Creates a list that contains the given URL as only
+ * item.
+ * @param url the url to add.
+ */
+ List(const KURL &url);
+ /**
+ * Creates a list that contains the URLs from the given
+ * list.
+ * @param list the list containing the URLs as strings
+ */
+ List(const QStringList &list);
+ /**
+ * Converts the URLs of this list to a list of strings.
+ * @return the list of strings
+ */
+ QStringList toStringList() const;
+ };
+ /**
+ * Constructs an empty URL.
+ */
+ KURL();
+
+ /**
+ * Destructs the KURL object.
+ */
+ ~KURL();
+
+ /**
+ * Usual constructor, to construct from a string.
+ * @param url A URL, not a filename. If the URL does not have a protocol
+ * part, "file:" is assumed.
+ * It is dangerous to feed unix filenames into this function,
+ * this will work most of the time but not always.
+ * For example "/home/Torben%20Weis" will be considered a URL
+ * pointing to the file "/home/Torben Weis" instead of to the
+ * file "/home/Torben%20Weis".
+ * This means that if you have a usual UNIX like path you
+ * should not use this constructor.
+ * Instead create an empty url and set the path by using
+ * @ref setPath().
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of original encoding of URL.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ KURL( const QString& url, int encoding_hint = 0 );
+ /**
+ * Constructor taking a char * @p url, which is an _encoded_ representation
+ * of the URL, exactly like the usual constructor. This is useful when
+ * then URL, in its encoded form, is strictly ascii.
+ * @param url A encoded URL. If the URL does not have a protocol part,
+ * "file:" is assumed.
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of original encoding of URL.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ KURL( const char * url, int encoding_hint = 0 );
+ /**
+ * Constructor taking a QCString @p url, which is an _encoded_ representation
+ * of the URL, exactly like the usual constructor. This is useful when
+ * then URL, in its encoded form, is strictly ascii.
+ * @param url A encoded URL. If the URL does not have a protocol part,
+ * "file:" is assumed.
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of original encoding of URL.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ KURL( const QCString& url, int encoding_hint = 0 );
+ /**
+ * Copy constructor.
+ * @param u the KURL to copy
+ */
+ KURL( const KURL& u );
+ /**
+ * Converts from a @ref QUrl.
+ * @param u the QUrl
+ */
+ KURL( const QUrl &u );
+ /**
+ * Constructor allowing relative URLs.
+ *
+ * @param _baseurl The base url.
+ * @param _rel_url A relative or absolute URL.
+ * If this is an absolute URL then @p _baseurl will be ignored.
+ * If this is a relative URL it will be combined with @p _baseurl.
+ * Note that _rel_url should be encoded too, in any case.
+ * So do NOT pass a path here (use setPath or addPath instead).
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of original encoding of URL.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ KURL( const KURL& _baseurl, const QString& _rel_url, int encoding_hint=0 );
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the protocol for the URL (i.e., file, http, etc.).
+ * @return the protocol of the URL, does not include the colon. If the
+ * URL is malformed, QString::null will be returned.
+ **/
+ QString protocol() const { return m_bIsMalformed ? QString::null : m_strProtocol; }
+ /**
+ * Sets the protocol for the URL (i.e., file, http, etc.)
+ * @param _txt the new protocol of the URL (without colon)
+ **/
+ void setProtocol( const QString& _txt );
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the decoded user name (login, user id, ...) included in the URL.
+ * @return the user name or QString::null if there is no user name
+ **/
+ QString user() const { return m_strUser; }
+ /**
+ * Sets the user name (login, user id, ...) included in the URL.
+ *
+ * Special characters in the user name will appear encoded in the URL.
+ * @param _txt the name of the user or QString::null to remove the user
+ **/
+ void setUser( const QString& _txt );
+ /**
+ * Test to see if this URL has a user name included in it.
+ * @return true if the URL has an non-empty user name
+ **/
+ bool hasUser() const { return !m_strUser.isEmpty(); }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the decoded password (corresponding to \ref user()) included in the URL.
+ * @return the password or QString::null if it does not exist
+ **/
+ QString pass() const { return m_strPass; }
+ /**
+ * Sets the password (corresponding to @ref user()) included in the URL.
+ *
+ * Special characters in the password will appear encoded in the URL.
+ * Note that a password can only appear in a URL string if you also set
+ * a user.
+ * @param _txt the password to set or QString::null to remove the password
+ * @see #setUser
+ * @see #hasUser
+ **/
+ void setPass( const QString& _txt );
+ /**
+ * Test to see if this URL has a password included in it.
+ * @return true if there is a non-empty password set
+ **/
+ bool hasPass() const { return !m_strPass.isEmpty(); }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the decoded hostname included in the URL.
+ * @return the name of the host or QString::null if no host is set
+ **/
+ QString host() const { return m_strHost; }
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the hostname included in the URL.
+ *
+ * Special characters in the hostname will appear encoded in the URL.
+ * @param _txt the new name of the host or QString::null to remove the host
+ **/
+ void setHost( const QString& _txt );
+ /**
+ * Test to see if this URL has a hostname included in it.
+ * @return true if the URL has a host
+ **/
+ bool hasHost() const { return !m_strHost.isEmpty(); }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the port number included in the URL.
+ * @return the port number. If there is no port number specified in the
+ * URL, returns 0.
+ **/
+ unsigned short int port() const { return m_iPort; }
+ /**
+ * Sets the port number included in the URL.
+ * @param _p the new port number or 0 to have no port number
+ **/
+ void setPort( unsigned short int _p );
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the current decoded path. This does @em not include the query.
+ * @return the path of the URL (without query), or QString::null if no
+ * path set.
+ */
+ QString path() const { return m_strPath; }
+
+ /**
+ * @param _trailing May be ( -1, 0 +1 ). -1 strips a trailing '/', +1 adds
+ * a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the
+ * path unchanged. If the URL has no path, then no '/' is added
+ * anyway. And on the other side: If the path is "/", then this
+ * character won't be stripped. Reason: "ftp://weis\@host" means something
+ * completely different than "ftp://weis\@host/". So adding or stripping
+ * the '/' would really alter the URL, while "ftp://host/path" and
+ * "ftp://host/path/" mean the same directory.
+ *
+ * @return The current decoded path. This does not include the query. Can
+ * be QString::null if no path is set.
+ */
+ QString path( int _trailing ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the path of the URL. The query is not changed by this function.
+ *
+ * @param path The new path. This is considered to be decoded. This
+ * means: %3f does not become decoded
+ * and the ? does not indicate the start of the query part.
+ * Can be QString::null to delete the path.
+ */
+ void setPath( const QString& path );
+
+ /**
+ * Test to see if this URL has a path is included in it.
+ * @return true if there is a path
+ **/
+ bool hasPath() const { return !m_strPath.isEmpty(); }
+
+ /**
+ * Resolves "." and ".." components in path.
+ * Some servers seem not to like the removal of extra '/'
+ * even though it is against the specification in RFC 2396.
+ *
+ * @param cleanDirSeparator if true, occurrances of consecutive
+ * directory separators (e.g. /foo//bar) are cleaned up as well.
+ */
+ void cleanPath(bool cleanDirSeparator = true);
+
+ /**
+ * Add or remove a trailing slash to/from the path.
+ * @param _trailing May be ( -1, 0 +1 ). -1 strips a trailing '/', +1 adds
+ * a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the
+ * path unchanged. If the URL has no path, then no '/' is added
+ * anyway. And on the other side: If the path is "/", then this
+ * character won't be stripped. Reason: "ftp://weis\@host" means something
+ * completely different than "ftp://weis\@host/". So adding or stripping
+ * the '/' would really alter the URL, while "ftp://host/path" and
+ * "ftp://host/path/" mean the same directory.
+ */
+ void adjustPath(int _trailing);
+
+ /**
+ * This is useful for HTTP. It looks first for '?' and decodes then.
+ * The encoded path is the concatenation of the current path and the query.
+ * @param _txt the new path and query.
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of original encoding of @p _txt .
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ void setEncodedPathAndQuery( const QString& _txt, int encoding_hint = 0 );
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the (already encoded) path
+ * @param _txt the new path
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of original encoding of @p _txt .
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ void setEncodedPath(const QString& _txt, int encoding_hint = 0 );
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the encoded path and the query.
+ *
+ * @param _trailing May be ( -1, 0 +1 ). -1 strips a trailing '/', +1 adds
+ * a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the
+ * path unchanged. If the URL has no path, then no '/' is added
+ * anyway. And on the other side: If the path is "/", then this
+ * character won't be stripped. Reason: "ftp://weis\@host" means something
+ * completely different than "ftp://weis\@host/". So adding or stripping
+ * the '/' would really alter the URL, while "ftp://host/path" and
+ * "ftp://host/path/" mean the same directory.
+ * @param _no_empty_path If set to true then an empty path is substituted by "/".
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of desired encoding of URL.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ * @return The concatenation if the encoded path , '?' and the encoded query.
+ *
+ */
+ QString encodedPathAndQuery( int _trailing = 0, bool _no_empty_path = false, int encoding_hint = 0) const;
+
+ /**
+ * @param _txt This is considered to be encoded. This has a good reason:
+ * The query may contain the 0 character.
+ *
+ * The query should start with a '?'. If it doesn't '?' is prepended.
+ * @param encoding_hint Reserved, should be 0.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ void setQuery( const QString& _txt, int encoding_hint = 0);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the query of the URL.
+ * The query may contain the 0 character.
+ * If a query is present it always starts with a '?'.
+ * A single '?' means an empty query.
+ * An empty string means no query.
+ * @return The encoded query, or QString::null if there is none.
+ */
+ QString query() const;
+
+ /**
+ * The reference is @em never decoded automatically.
+ * @return the undecoded reference, or QString::null if there is none
+ */
+ QString ref() const { return m_strRef_encoded; }
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the reference part (everything after '#').
+ * @param _txt The encoded reference (or QString::null to remove it).
+ */
+ void setRef( const QString& _txt ) { m_strRef_encoded = _txt; }
+
+ /**
+ * Checks whether the URL has a reference part.
+ * @return true if the URL has a reference part. In a URL like
+ * http://www.kde.org/kdebase.tar#tar:/README it would
+ * return true, too.
+ */
+ bool hasRef() const { return !m_strRef_encoded.isNull(); }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the HTML reference (the part of the URL after "#").
+ * @return The HTML-style reference.
+ * @see #split
+ * @see #hasSubURL
+ * @see #encodedHtmlRef
+ */
+ QString htmlRef() const;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the HTML reference (the part of the URL after "#") in
+ * encoded form.
+ * @return The HTML-style reference in its original form.
+ */
+ QString encodedHtmlRef() const;
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the HTML-style reference.
+ *
+ * @param _ref The new reference. This is considered to be @em not encoded in
+ * contrast to @ref setRef(). Use QString::null to remove it.
+ * @see htmlRef()
+ */
+ void setHTMLRef( const QString& _ref );
+
+ /**
+ * Checks whether there is a HTML reference.
+ * @return true if the URL has an HTML-style reference.
+ * @see htmlRef()
+ */
+ bool hasHTMLRef() const;
+
+ /**
+ * Checks whether the URL is well formed.
+ * @return false if the URL is malformed. This function does @em not test
+ * whether sub URLs are well-formed, too.
+ */
+ bool isValid() const { return !m_bIsMalformed; }
+ /**
+ * @deprecated
+ */
+ bool isMalformed() const { return !isValid(); }
+
+ /**
+ * Checks whether the file is local.
+ * @return true if the file is a plain local file and has no filter protocols
+ * attached to it.
+ */
+ bool isLocalFile() const;
+
+ /**
+ * Adds encoding information to url by adding a "charset" parameter. If there
+ * is already a charset parameter, it will be replaced.
+ * @param encoding the encoding to add or QString::null to remove the
+ * encoding.
+ */
+ void setFileEncoding(const QString &encoding);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns encoding information from url, the content of the "charset"
+ * parameter.
+ * @return An encoding suitable for QTextCodec::codecForName()
+ * or QString::null if not encoding was specified.
+ */
+ QString fileEncoding() const;
+
+ /**
+ * Checks whether the URL has any sub URLs. See @ref #split()
+ * for examples for sub URLs.
+ * @return true if the file has at least one sub URL.
+ * @see #split
+ */
+ bool hasSubURL() const;
+
+ /**
+ * Adds to the current path.
+ * Assumes that the current path is a directory. @p _txt is appended to the
+ * current path. The function adds '/' if needed while concatenating.
+ * This means it does not matter whether the current path has a trailing
+ * '/' or not. If there is none, it becomes appended. If @p _txt
+ * has a leading '/' then this one is stripped.
+ *
+ * @param _txt The text to add. It is considered to be decoded.
+ */
+ void addPath( const QString& _txt );
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the value of a certain query item.
+ *
+ * @param _item Item whose value we want
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of encoding of query.
+ *
+ * @return the value of the given query item name or QString::null if the
+ * specified item does not exist.
+ */
+/*US we do not need this functions
+ QString queryItem( const QString& _item ) const;
+ QString queryItem( const QString& _item, int encoding_hint ) const;
+*/
+ /**
+ * Options for @ref #queryItems. Currently, only one option is
+ * defined:
+ *
+ * @param CaseInsensitiveKeys normalize query keys to lowercase.
+ *
+ * @since 3.1
+ **/
+ enum QueryItemsOptions { CaseInsensitiveKeys = 1 };
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the list of query items as a map mapping keys to values.
+ *
+ * @param options any of @ref QueryItemsOptions <em>or</or>ed together.
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of encoding of query.
+ *
+ * @return the map of query items or the empty map if the url has no
+ * query items.
+ *
+ * @since 3.1
+ */
+ QMap< QString, QString > queryItems( int options=0 ) const;
+ QMap< QString, QString > queryItems( int options, int encoding_hint ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Add an additional query item.
+ * To replace an existing query item, the item should first be
+ * removed with @ref removeQueryItem()
+ *
+ * @param _item Name of item to add
+ * @param _value Value of item to add
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of encoding to use for _value.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ */
+ void addQueryItem( const QString& _item, const QString& _value, int encoding_hint = 0 );
+
+ /**
+ * Remove an item from the query.
+ *
+ * @param _item Item to be removed
+ */
+ void removeQueryItem( const QString& _item );
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the filename of the path.
+ * In comparison to @ref addPath() this function does not assume that the current
+ * path is a directory. This is only assumed if the current path ends with '/'.
+ *
+ * Any reference is reset.
+ *
+ * @param _txt The filename to be set. It is considered to be decoded. If the
+ * current path ends with '/' then @p _txt int just appended, otherwise
+ * all text behind the last '/' in the current path is erased and
+ * @p _txt is appended then. It does not matter whether @p _txt starts
+ * with '/' or not.
+ */
+ void setFileName( const QString&_txt );
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the filename of the path.
+ * @param _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path This tells whether a trailing '/' should
+ * be ignored. This means that the function would return "torben" for
+ * <tt>file:/hallo/torben/</tt> and <tt>file:/hallo/torben</tt>.
+ * If the flag is set to false, then everything behind the last '/'
+ * is considered to be the filename.
+ * @return The filename of the current path. The returned string is decoded. Null
+ * if there is no file (and thus no path).
+ */
+ QString fileName( bool _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path = true ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the directory of the path.
+ * @param _strip_trailing_slash_from_result tells whether the returned result should end with '/' or not.
+ * If the path is empty or just "/" then this flag has no effect.
+ * @param _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path means that <tt>file:/hallo/torben</tt> and
+ * <tt>file:/hallo/torben/"</tt> would both return <tt>/hallo/</tt>
+ * or <tt>/hallo</tt> depending on the other flag
+ * @return The directory part of the current path. Everything between the last and the second last '/'
+ * is returned. For example <tt>file:/hallo/torben/</tt> would return "/hallo/torben/" while
+ * <tt>file:/hallo/torben</tt> would return "hallo/". The returned string is decoded. QString::null is returned when there is no path.
+ */
+ QString directory( bool _strip_trailing_slash_from_result = true,
+ bool _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path = true ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Set the directory to @p dir, leaving the filename empty.
+ */
+ void setDirectory(const QString &dir);
+
+ /**
+ * Changes the directory by descending into the given directory.
+ * It is assumed the current URL represents a directory.
+ * If @p dir starts with a "/" the
+ * current URL will be "protocol://host/dir" otherwise @p _dir will
+ * be appended to the path. @p _dir can be ".."
+ * This function won't strip protocols. That means that when you are in
+ * file:/dir/dir2/my.tgz#tar:/ and you do cd("..") you will
+ * still be in file:/dir/dir2/my.tgz#tar:/
+ *
+ * @param _dir the directory to change to
+ * @return true if successful
+ */
+ bool cd( const QString& _dir );
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the URL as string, with all escape sequences intact,
+ * encoded in a given charset.
+ * This is used in particular for encoding URLs in UTF-8 before using them
+ * in a drag and drop operation.
+ * Please note that the string returned by @ref url() will include
+ * the password of the URL. If you want to show the URL to the
+ * user, use @ref prettyURL().
+ *
+ * @param _trailing This may be ( -1, 0 +1 ). -1 strips a trailing '/' from the path, +1 adds
+ * a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the
+ * path unchanged.
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of encoding to use.
+ * @return The complete URL, with all escape sequences intact, encoded
+ * in a given charset.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ * @see prettyURL()
+ */
+ QString url( int _trailing = 0, int encoding_hint = 0) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the URL as string in human-friendly format.
+ * Example:
+ * <pre>
+ * http://localhost:8080/test.cgi?test=hello world&name=fred
+ * </pre>
+ * @param _trailing -1 to strip a trailing '/' from the path, +1 adds
+ * a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the
+ * path unchanged.
+ * @return A human readable URL, with no non-necessary encodings/escaped
+ * characters. Password will not be shown.
+ * @see url()
+ */
+ QString prettyURL( int _trailing = 0) const;
+
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the URL as string, escaped for HTML.
+ * @return A human readable URL, with no non-necessary encodings/escaped
+ * characters which is html encoded for safe inclusion in html or
+ * rich text. Password will not be shown.
+ */
+ QString htmlURL() const;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the URL as string, escaped for HTML.
+ * Example:
+ * <pre>
+ * http://localhost:8080/test.cgi?test=hello world&name=fred
+ * </pre>
+ * @return A human readable URL, with no non-necessary encodings/escaped
+ * characters. Password will not be shown.
+ */
+ QString prettyURL( int _trailing, AdjustementFlags _flags) const;
+ // ### BIC: Merge the two above
+
+ /**
+ * Test to see if the KURL is empty.
+ * @return true if the URL is empty
+ **/
+ bool isEmpty() const;
+
+ /**
+ * This function is useful to implement the "Up" button in a file manager for example.
+ * @ref cd() never strips a sub-protocol. That means that if you are in
+ * file:/home/x.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/ and hit the up button you expect to see
+ * file:/home. The algorithm tries to go up on the right-most URL. If that is not
+ * possible it strips the right most URL. It continues stripping URLs.
+ * @return a URL that is a level higher
+ */
+ KURL upURL( ) const;
+
+ KURL& operator=( const KURL& _u );
+ KURL& operator=( const QString& _url );
+ KURL& operator=( const char * _url );
+ KURL& operator=( const QUrl & u );
+
+ bool operator==( const KURL& _u ) const;
+ bool operator==( const QString& _u ) const;
+ bool operator!=( const KURL& _u ) const { return !( *this == _u ); }
+ bool operator!=( const QString& _u ) const { return !( *this == _u ); }
+
+ /**
+ * The same as equals(), just with a less obvious name.
+ * Compares this url with @p u.
+ * @param ignore_trailing set to true to ignore trailing '/' characters.
+ * @return true if both urls are the same
+ * @see operator==. This function should be used if you want to
+ * ignore trailing '/' characters.
+ * @deprecated
+ */
+ bool cmp( const KURL &u, bool ignore_trailing = false ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Compares this url with @p u.
+ * @param ignore_trailing set to true to ignore trailing '/' characters.
+ * @return true if both urls are the same
+ * @see operator==. This function should be used if you want to
+ * ignore trailing '/' characters.
+ * @since 3.1
+ */
+ bool equals( const KURL &u, bool ignore_trailing = false ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Checks whether the given URL is parent of this URL.
+ * For instance, ftp://host/dir/ is a parent of ftp://host/dir/subdir/subsubdir/.
+ * @return true if this url is a parent of @p u (or the same URL as @p u)
+ */
+ bool isParentOf( const KURL& u ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Splits nested URLs like file:/home/weis/kde.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/kdebase
+ * A URL like http://www.kde.org#tar:/kde/README.hml#ref1 will be split in
+ * http://www.kde.org and tar:/kde/README.html#ref1.
+ * That means in turn that "#ref1" is an HTML-style reference and not a new sub URL.
+ * Since HTML-style references mark
+ * a certain position in a document this reference is appended to every URL.
+ * The idea behind this is that browsers, for example, only look at the first URL while
+ * the rest is not of interest to them.
+ *
+ *
+ * @param _url The URL that has to be split.
+ * @return An empty list on error or the list of split URLs.
+ * @see #hasSubURL
+ */
+ static List split( const QString& _url );
+
+ /**
+ * Splits nested URLs like file:/home/weis/kde.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/kdebase
+ * A URL like http://www.kde.org#tar:/kde/README.hml#ref1 will be split in
+ * http://www.kde.org and tar:/kde/README.html#ref1.
+ * That means in turn that "#ref1" is an HTML-style reference and not a new sub URL.
+ * Since HTML-style references mark
+ * a certain position in a document this reference is appended to every URL.
+ * The idea behind this is that browsers, for example, only look at the first URL while
+ * the rest is not of interest to them.
+ *
+ * @return An empty list on error or the list of split URLs.
+ *
+ * @param _url The URL that has to be split.
+ * @see #hasSubURL
+ */
+ static List split( const KURL& _url );
+
+ /**
+ * Reverses @ref #split(). Only the first URL may have a reference. This reference
+ * is considered to be HTML-like and is appended at the end of the resulting
+ * joined URL.
+ * @param _list the list to join
+ * @return the joined URL
+ */
+ static KURL join( const List& _list );
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a KURL object from a QString representing either an absolute path
+ * or a real URL. Use this method instead of
+ * <pre>
+ * QString someDir = ...
+ * KURL url = someDir;
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * Otherwise some characters (e.g. the '#') won't be encoded properly.
+ * @param text the string representation of the URL to convert
+ * @return the new KURL
+ * @since 3.1
+ */
+ static KURL fromPathOrURL( const QString& text );
+
+/**
+ * Convenience function.
+ *
+ * Convert unicoded string to local encoding and use %-style
+ * encoding for all common delimiters / non-ascii characters.
+ * @param str String to encode (can be QString::null).
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of encoding to use.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ * @return the encoded string
+ **/
+ static QString encode_string(const QString &str, int encoding_hint = 0);
+
+ /**
+ * Convenience function.
+ *
+ * Convert unicoded string to local encoding and use %-style
+ * encoding for all common delimiters / non-ascii characters
+ * as well as the slash '/'.
+ * @param str String to encode
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of encoding to use.
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ **/
+ static QString encode_string_no_slash(const QString &str, int encoding_hint = 0);
+
+ /**
+ * Convenience function.
+ *
+ * Decode %-style encoding and convert from local encoding to unicode.
+ *
+ * Reverse of encode_string()
+ * @param str String to decode (can be QString::null).
+ * @param encoding_hint MIB of original encoding of @p str .
+ * @see QTextCodec::mibEnum()
+ **/
+ static QString decode_string(const QString &str, int encoding_hint = 0);
+
+ /**
+ * Convenience function.
+ *
+ * Returns whether '_url' is likely to be a "relative" URL instead of
+ * an "absolute" URL.
+ * @param _url URL to examine
+ * @return true when the URL is likely to be "relative", false otherwise.
+ */
+ static bool isRelativeURL(const QString &_url);
+
+#ifdef KDE_NO_COMPAT
+private:
+#endif
+ QString filename( bool _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path = true ) const
+ {
+ return fileName(_ignore_trailing_slash_in_path);
+ }
+
+protected:
+ void reset();
+ void parse( const QString& _url, int encoding_hint = 0);
+
+private:
+ QString m_strProtocol;
+ QString m_strUser;
+ QString m_strPass;
+ QString m_strHost;
+ QString m_strPath;
+ QString m_strRef_encoded;
+ QString m_strQuery_encoded;
+ bool m_bIsMalformed : 1;
+ int freeForUse : 7;
+ unsigned short int m_iPort;
+ QString m_strPath_encoded;
+
+ friend QDataStream & operator<< (QDataStream & s, const KURL & a);
+ friend QDataStream & operator>> (QDataStream & s, KURL & a);
+private:
+ KURLPrivate* d;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Compares URLs. They are parsed, split and compared.
+ * Two malformed URLs with the same string representation
+ * are nevertheless considered to be unequal.
+ * That means no malformed URL equals anything else.
+ */
+bool urlcmp( const QString& _url1, const QString& _url2 );
+
+/**
+ * Compares URLs. They are parsed, split and compared.
+ * Two malformed URLs with the same string representation
+ * are nevertheless considered to be unequal.
+ * That means no malformed URL equals anything else.
+ *
+ * @param _ignore_trailing Described in @ref KURL::cmp
+ * @param _ignore_ref If true, disables comparison of HTML-style references.
+ */
+bool urlcmp( const QString& _url1, const QString& _url2, bool _ignore_trailing, bool _ignore_ref );
+
+QDataStream & operator<< (QDataStream & s, const KURL & a);
+QDataStream & operator>> (QDataStream & s, KURL & a);
+
+#endif