(* $Id: netencoding.mli,v 2.9 2005/04/14 12:44:40 stolpmann Exp $
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 *)

(** Base64, Quoted Printable, URL encoding, HTML escaping *)

(* *********************************************************************)
(* Several encodings important for the net                             *)
(* *********************************************************************)


(* *********************************************************************)
(* Base 64 encoding                                                    *)
(* *********************************************************************)

(* See RFC 2045 for a description of Base 64 encoding. *)

(* THREAD-SAFETY: 
 * All Base64 functions are reentrant and thus thread-safe.
 *)

module Base64 : sig

  (** Base64 encoding as described in RFC 2045 *)

  val encode : ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> ?linelength:int -> ?crlf:bool ->
               string -> string
      (** Compute the "base 64" encoding of the given string argument.
       * Note that the result is a string that only contains the characters
       * a-z, A-Z, 0-9, +, /, =, and optionally spaces, CR and LF characters.
       *
       * If [pos] and/or [len] are passed, only the substring starting at
       * [pos] (default: 0) with length [len] (default: rest of the string)
       * is encoded.
       *
       * The result is divided up into lines not longer than [linelength]
       * (without counting the line separator); default: do not divide lines.
       * If [linelength] is smaller than 4, no line division is performed.
       * If [linelength] is not divisible by 4, the produced lines are a 
       * bit shorter than [linelength].
       *
       * If [crlf] (default: false) the lines are ended by CRLF; otherwise 
       * they are only ended by LF.
       * (You need the crlf option to produce correct MIME messages.)
       * 
       *)

  val url_encode : ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> ?linelength:int -> ?crlf:bool ->
                   string -> string
      (** Same as [encode] but use slightly different characters that can be
       * part of URLs without additional encodings.
       * The encoded string consists only of the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, 
       * -, /, .
       * [url_encode] does {b not} implement the Base 64 encoding as described
       * in the standard!
       *
       * @deprecated Since Ocamlnet 0.98, this function is deprecated,
       *   as it is non-standard, and it has a confusing name.
       *)

  val decode : ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> ?url_variant:bool -> 
               ?accept_spaces:bool -> string -> string
      (** Decodes the given string argument. 
       *
       * If [pos] and/or [len] are passed, only the substring starting at
       * [pos] (default: 0) with length [len] (default: rest of the string)
       * is decoded.
       * 
       * If [url_variant] (default: [true]) is set, the functions also
       * accepts the characters '-' and '.' as produced by [url_encode].
       *
       * If [accept_spaces] (default: [false]) is set, the function ignores
       * white space contained in the string to decode (otherwise the
       * function fails if it finds white space). Furthermore, the character
       * '>' is considered as "space", too (so you don't have trouble with
       * mbox mailboxes that accidentally quote "From").
       *)


  class encoding_pipe : ?linelength:int -> ?crlf:bool -> unit ->
                          Netchannels.pipe
      (** This pipe encodes the data written into the pipe. 
       * [linelength] and [crlf] work as in [encode].
       *)

  class decoding_pipe : ?url_variant:bool -> ?accept_spaces:bool -> unit ->
                          Netchannels.pipe
      (** This pipe decodes the data written into the pipe.
       * [url_variant] and [accept_spaces] work as in [decode].
       *)

end

(* *********************************************************************)
(* Quoted printable encoding                                           *)
(* *********************************************************************)

(* THREAD-SAFETY: 
 * All QuotedPrintable functions are reentrant and thus thread-safe.
 *)

module QuotedPrintable :
  sig
    (** This module implements the "Quoted Printable" encoding as
     * described in RFC 2045.
     *
     * This implementation assumes that the encoded string has a text MIME
     * type. On input both CR/LF and LF are accepted as end-of-line (eol) terminators,
     * but the output normalizes the eol delimiter as the [crlf] argument
     * specifies. Note that this implies that
     * - If [crlf], the output uses CR/LF as line separator as MIME prescribes
     * - the encoding is not invertible for binary data
     *)

    val encode : ?crlf:bool -> ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> string -> string
	(** Encodes the string and returns it.
	 *
	 * Since OcamlNet 0.98, soft line breaks are added to the output
	 * to ensure that all output lines have a length <= 76 bytes.
	 *
	 * Note unsafe characters:
	 *   As recommended by RFC 2045, the characters [!#$\@[]^`{|}~]
	 *   and the double quotes
	 *   are additionally represented as hex tokens.        
	 *   Furthermore, the letter 'F' is considered as unsafe if it
	 *   occurs at the beginning of the line, so the encoded text
	 *   never contains the word "From" at the beginning of a line.
	 *
	 * If [pos] and/or [len] are passed, only the substring starting at
	 * [pos] (default: 0) with length [len] (default: rest of the string)
	 * is encoded.
	 *
          * If [crlf] is set (the default), the output text uses CR/LF as
	 * line separator. Otherwise only LF is used.
	 *)

    val decode : ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> string -> string
	(** Decodes the string and returns it.
	 *
	 * Most format errors cause an [Invalid_argument] exception.
	 *
	 * If [pos] and/or [len] are passed, only the substring starting at
	 * [pos] (default: 0) with length [len] (default: rest of the string)
	 * is decoded.
	 *)

    class encoding_pipe : ?crlf:bool -> unit -> Netchannels.pipe
      (** This pipe encodes the data written into the pipe. *)

    class decoding_pipe : unit -> Netchannels.pipe
      (** This pipe decodes the data written into the pipe. *)

  end

(* *********************************************************************)
(* Q encoding                                                          *)
(* *********************************************************************)

(* See RFC 2047. 
 * The functions behave similar to those of QuotedPrintable. 
 *)

(* THREAD-SAFETY: 
 * All Q functions are reentrant and thus thread-safe.
 *)

module Q :
  sig
    (** The "Q" encoding as described by RFC 2047. *)

    val encode : ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> string -> string
	(** Note:
	 * All characters except alphanumeric characters are protected by
	 * hex tokens.
	 * In particular, spaces are represented as "=20", not as "_".
	 *)

    val decode : ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> string -> string

  end

(* *********************************************************************)
(* B encoding                                                          *)
(* *********************************************************************)

(* The B encoding of RFC 2047 is the same as Base64. *)


(* *********************************************************************)
(* URL-encoding                                                        *)
(* *********************************************************************)


(* THREAD-SAFETY:
 * The Url functions are thread-safe.
 *)

module Url : 
  sig
    (** Encoding/Decoding within URLs:
     *
     * The following two functions perform the '%'-substitution for
     * characters that may otherwise be interpreted as metacharacters.
     *
     * According to: RFC 1738, RFC 1630
     *
     * Option [plus]: This option has been added because there are some
     * implementations that do not map ' ' to '+', for example Javascript's
     * [escape] function. The default is [true] because this is the RFC-
     * compliant definition.
     *)


    val decode : ?plus:bool -> string -> string
	(** Option [plus]: Whether '+' is converted to space. The default
	 * is true. If false, '+' is returned as it is.
	 *)
    val encode : ?plus:bool -> string -> string
	(** Option [plus]: Whether spaces are converted to '+'. The default
	 * is true. If false, spaces are converted to "%20", and
	 * only %xx sequences are produced.
	 *)

    (** URL-encoded parameters:
     *
     * The following two functions create and analyze URL-encoded parameters.
     * Format: [name1=val1&name2=val2&...]
     *)

    val mk_url_encoded_parameters : (string * string) list -> string
       (** The argument is a list of (name,value) pairs. The result is the
        * single URL-encoded parameter string.
        *)

    val dest_url_encoded_parameters : string -> (string * string) list
       (** The argument is the URL-encoded parameter string. The result is
        * the corresponding list of (name,value) pairs.
        * Note: Whitespace within the parameter string is ignored.
        * If there is a format error, the function fails.
        *)
  end


(* *********************************************************************)
(* HTMLization                                                         *)
(* *********************************************************************)

(* THREAD-SAFETY:
 * The Html functions are thread-safe.
 *)

module Html :
  sig

    (** Encodes characters that need protection by converting them to
     * entity references. E.g. ["<"] is converted to ["&lt;"].
     * As the entities may be named, there is a dependency on the character
     * set. 
     *)

    (* OLD ENCODE/DECODE FUNCTIONS: *)

    (** Legacy functions: *)

    val encode_from_latin1 : string -> string
	(* Encodes the characters 0-8, 11-12, 14-31, '<', '>', '"', '&',
	 * 127-255. If the characters have a name, a named entity is
	 * preferred over a numeric entity.
	 *)
    val decode_to_latin1   : string -> string
	(* Decodes the string. Unknown named entities are left as they
	 * are (i.e. decode_to_latin1 "&nonsense;" = "&nonsense;").
	 * The same applies to numeric entities greater than 255.
	 *)
    
    (* NEW ENCODE/DECODE FUNCTIONS: *)

    (** These functions have a more general interface and should be preferred
     * in new programs.
     *)

    val unsafe_chars_html4 : string
      (** The string contains '<', '>', '"', '&' and the control characters
       * 0-8, 11-12, 14-31, 127.
       *)

    val encode : in_enc:Netconversion.encoding ->
                 ?out_enc:Netconversion.encoding -> (* default: `Enc_usascii *)
		 ?prefer_name:bool ->               (* default: true *)
                 ?unsafe_chars:string ->      (* default: unsafe_chars_html4 *)
		 unit ->
                 string ->
		   string
      (** The input string that is encoded as [in_enc] is recoded to 
       * [out_enc], and the following characters are encoded as HTML
       * entity ([&name;] or [&#num;]):
       * - The ASCII characters contained in [unsafe_chars]
       * - The characters that cannot be represented in [out_enc]. By
       *   default ([out_enc=`Enc_usascii]), only ASCII characters can be
       *   represented, and thus all code points >= 128 are encoded as
       *   HTML entities. If you pass [out_enc=`Enc_utf8], all characters
       *   can be represented.
       *
       * For example, the string ["(a<b) & (c>d)"] is encoded as
       * ["(a&lt;b) &amp; (c&gt;d)"].
       *
       * It is required that [out_enc] is an ASCII-compatible encoding.
       *
       * The option [prefer_name] selects whether named entities (e.g. [&lt;])
       * or numeric entities (e.g. [&#60;]) are prefered.
       * 
       * The efficiency of the function can be improved when the same encoding
       * is applied to several strings. Create a specialized encoding function
       * by passing all arguments up to the unit argument, and apply this
       * function several times. For example:
       * {[
       *     let my_enc = encode ~in_enc:`Enc_utf8 () in
       *     let s1' = my_enc s1 in
       *     let s2' = my_enc s2 in ...
       * ]}
       *)

    type entity_set = [ `Html | `Xml | `Empty ];;

    val decode : in_enc:Netconversion.encoding ->
                 out_enc:Netconversion.encoding ->
		 ?lookup:(string -> string) ->   (* default: see below *)
		 ?subst:(int -> string) ->       (* default: see below *)
		 ?entity_base:entity_set ->      (* default: `Html *)
		 unit -> 
		 string ->
		   string
      (** The input string is recoded from [in_enc] to [out_enc], and HTML
       * entities ([&name;] or [&#num;]) are resolved. The input encoding 
       * [in_enc] must be ASCII-compatible.
       *
       * By default, the function knows all entities defined for HTML 4 (this
       * can be changed using [entity_base], see below). If other
       * entities occur, the function [lookup] is called and the name of
       * the entity is passed as input string to the function. It is
       * expected that [lookup] returns the value of the entity, and that this
       * value is already encoded as [out_enc].
       * By default, [lookup] raises a [Failure] exception.
       *
       * If a character cannot be represented in the output encoding,
       * the function [subst] is called. [subst] must return a substitute
       * string for the character.
       * By default, [subst] raises a [Failure] exception.
       *
       * The option [entity_base] determines which set of entities are
       * considered as the known entities that can be decoded without
       * help by the [lookup] function: [`Html] selects all entities defined
       * for HTML 4, [`Xml] selects only [&lt;], [&gt;], [&amp;], [&quot;],
       * and [&apos;],
       * and [`Empty] selects the empty set (i.e. [lookup] is always called).
       *)

  end


(* ======================================================================
 * History:
 * 
 * $Log: netencoding.mli,v $
 * Revision 2.9  2005/04/14 12:44:40  stolpmann
 * One can now select LF as line terminator for all message writing
 * functions. Netsendmail.sendmail defaults to LF for Unix compatiblity.
 *
 * Revision 2.8  2004/07/10 23:43:06  stolpmann
 * 	ocamldoc
 *
 * Revision 2.7  2004/07/04 21:02:46  stolpmann
 * 	Bug fix: QuotedPrintable takes care of adding soft line breaks.
 *
 * Revision 2.6  2002/07/03 01:16:38  stolpmann
 * 	New: Html.encode and Html.decode
 *
 * Revision 2.5  2002/02/02 23:54:06  stolpmann
 * 	Improvements for mbox mailboxes.
 *
 * Revision 2.4  2002/01/14 01:04:58  stolpmann
 * 	Netencoding.Url.mk/dest_url_encoded_parameters: These functions
 * now reside here and not in Cgi.
 *
 * Revision 2.3  2002/01/04 22:46:08  stolpmann
 * 	New: QuotedPrintable.encoding_pipe, and decoding_pipe.
 * 	The deprecated functions of [QuotedPrintable] and [Q] have been
 * moved into modules [Deprecated].
 *
 * Revision 2.2  2002/01/04 21:59:35  stolpmann
 * 	New: Base64.encoding_pipe, and Base64.decoding_pipe.
 * 	The deprecated Base64 functions have been moved into a
 * module [Deprecated].
 *
 * Revision 2.1  2001/09/14 14:22:34  stolpmann
 * 	Initial revision (sourceforge)
 *
 *
 * ======================================================================
 * Revision 1.5  2001/08/30 19:45:43  gerd
 * 	Module Url: added the option ~plus
 *
 * Revision 1.4  2000/06/25 22:34:43  gerd
 * 	Added labels to arguments.
 *
 * Revision 1.3  2000/06/25 21:15:48  gerd
 * 	Checked thread-safety.
 *
 * Revision 1.2  2000/03/03 01:08:29  gerd
 * 	Added Netencoding.Html functions.
 *
 * Revision 1.1  2000/03/02 01:14:48  gerd
 * 	Initial revision.
 *
 * 
 *)
