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Network.URI

Portability | portable
Stability | provisional
Maintainer | Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>

Contents

The URI type
Parsing
Test for strings containing various kinds of URI
Relative URIs
Operations on URI strings
URI Normalization functions
Deprecated functions

Description

This module defines functions for handling URIs. It presents the same interface as the GHC Network.URI module, but is implemented using Parsec rather than a Regex library that is not available with Hugs. The internal representation of URI has been changed so that URI strings are more completely preserved when round-tripping to a URI value and back.

In addition, four methods are provided for parsing different kinds of URI string (as noted in RFC2396bis): `parseURI`, `parseURIReference`, `parseRelativeReference` and `parseabsoluteURI`.

Further, four methods are provided for classifying different kinds of URI string (as noted in RFC2396bis): `isURI`, `isURIReference`, `isRelativeReference` and `isAbsoluteURI`.

The current official reference for URI handling is RFC2396 [1], as updated by RFC 2732 [2].

These are being merged into RFC2396bis [3], a work-in-progress copy of which is available at the URI indicated. This document has been used as the primary reference for constructing the URI parser implemented here, and it is intended that there is a direct relationship between the syntax definition in that document and the parser implementation.

RFC 1808 [4] contains a number of test cases for relative URI handling. Dan Connolly's Python module `uripath.py` [5] also contains useful details and test cases.

1. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
2. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt
3. http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html (This implementation based on a version dated Sep-2003, also available as CVS revision 1.64 from http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ietf-uri/rev-2002/)
4. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt
5. http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/uripath.py

Some of the code has been copied from the GHC implementation, but the parser is replaced with one that performs more complete syntax checking of the URI itself, according to RFC2396bis [3].

Synopsis

data URI = URI {

uriScheme :: String
uriAuthority :: (Maybe URIAuth)
uriPath :: String
uriQuery :: String
uriFragment :: String

}

data URIAuth = URIAuth {

uriUserInfo :: String
uriRegName :: String
uriPort :: String

}

nullURI :: URI
parseURI :: String -> Maybe URI
parseURIReference :: String -> Maybe URI
parseRelativeReference :: String -> Maybe URI
parseabsoluteURI :: String -> Maybe URI
isURI :: String -> Bool
isURIReference :: String -> Bool
isRelativeReference :: String -> Bool
isAbsoluteURI :: String -> Bool
isIPv6address :: String -> Bool
isIPv4address :: String -> Bool
relativeTo :: URI -> URI -> Maybe URI
nonStrictRelativeTo :: URI -> URI -> Maybe URI
relativeFrom :: URI -> URI -> URI
uriToString :: (String -> String) -> URI -> ShowS
isReserved :: Char -> Bool
isUnreserved :: Char -> Bool
isAllowedInURI :: Char -> Bool
isUnescapedInURI :: Char -> Bool
escapeURIChar :: (Char -> Bool) -> Char -> String
escapeURIString :: (Char -> Bool) -> String -> String
unEscapeString :: String -> String
normalizeCase :: String -> String
normalizeEscape :: String -> String
normalizePathSegments :: String -> String
escapeString :: String -> (Char -> Bool) -> String
reserved :: Char -> Bool
unreserved :: Char -> Bool
scheme :: URI -> String
authority :: URI -> String
path :: URI -> String
query :: URI -> String
fragment :: URI -> String

The URI type
data URI

Represents a general universal resource identifier using its component parts.

For example, for the URI

       foo://anonymous@www.haskell.org:42/ghc?query#frag

the components are:

Constructors

URI |

uriScheme :: String

    foo:

uriAuthority :: (Maybe URIAuth)

    //anonymous@www.haskell.org:42

uriPath :: String

    /ghc

uriQuery :: String

    ?query

uriFragment :: String

    #frag

Instances

Data URI
Eq URI
Show URI
Typeable URI

data URIAuth

Type for authority value within a URI
Constructors

URIAuth |

uriUserInfo :: String

    anonymous@

uriRegName :: String

    www.haskell.org

uriPort :: String

    :42

Instances

Data URIAuth
Eq URIAuth
Typeable URIAuth

nullURI :: URI
Blank URI
Parsing
parseURI :: String -> Maybe URI
Turn a string containing a URI into a `URI`. Returns `Nothing` if the string is not a valid URI; (an absolute URI with optional fragment identifier). NOTE: this is different from network.URI, whose `parseURI` function works like `parseURIReference` in this module.
parseURIReference :: String -> Maybe URI
Parse a URI reference to a `URI` value. Returns `Nothing` if the string is not a valid URI reference. (an absolute or relative URI with optional fragment identifier).
parseRelativeReference :: String -> Maybe URI
Parse a relative URI to a `URI` value. Returns `Nothing` if the string is not a valid relative URI. (a relative URI with optional fragment identifier).
parseabsoluteURI :: String -> Maybe URI
Parse an absolute URI to a `URI` value. Returns `Nothing` if the string is not a valid absolute URI. (an absolute URI without a fragment identifier).
Test for strings containing various kinds of URI
isURI :: String -> Bool
Test if string contains a valid URI;
isURIReference :: String -> Bool
Test if string contains a valid URI reference
isRelativeReference :: String -> Bool
Test if string contains a valid relative URI.
isAbsoluteURI :: String -> Bool
Test if string contains a valid absolute URI.
isIPv6address :: String -> Bool
Test if string contains a valid IPv6 address
isIPv4address :: String -> Bool
Test if string contains a valid IPv4 address
Relative URIs
relativeTo :: URI -> URI -> Maybe URI
Compute an absolute `URI` for a supplied URI relative to a given base.
nonStrictRelativeTo :: URI -> URI -> Maybe URI

Returns a new `URI` which represents the value of the first `URI` interpreted as relative to the second `URI`. For example:

     "foo" `relativeTo` "http://bar.org/" = "http://bar.org/foo"
     "http:foo" `nonStrictRelativeTo` "http://bar.org/" = "http://bar.org/foo"

Algorithm from RFC2396bis [3], section 5.2.2

relativeFrom :: URI -> URI -> URI

Returns a new `URI` which represents the ralative location of the first `URI` with respect to the second `URI`. Thus, the values supplied are expected to be absolure URIs, and the result returned may be a relative URI.

Example:

     "http://example.com/Root/sub1/name2#frag"
       `relativeFrom` "http://example.com/Root/sub2/name2#frag"
       == "../sub2/name2#frag"

There is no single correct implementation of this function, but any accesptable implementation must satisfy the following:

     (uabs `relativeFrom` ubase) `relativeTo` ubase == uabs

For any valid absolute URI. cf. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003Jan/0008.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003Jan/0005.html

Operations on URI strings
Support for putting strings into URI-friendly escaped format and getting them back again. This can't be done transparently in all cases, because certain characters have different meanings in different kinds of URI. The URI spec [3], section 2.4, indicates that all URI compenents should be escaped before they are assembled as a URI: "Once produced, a URI is always in its percent-encoded form"
uriToString :: (String -> String) -> URI -> ShowS
Turn a `URI` into a string. Uses a supplied function to map the userinfo part of the URI. The Show instance for URI uses a mapping that hides any password that may be present in the URI. Use this function with argument `id` to preserve the password in the formatted output.
isReserved :: Char -> Bool
Returns `True` if the character is a "reserved" character in a URI. To include a literal instance of one of these characters in a component of a URI, it must be escaped.
isUnreserved :: Char -> Bool
Returns `True` if the character is an "unreserved" character in a URI. These characters do not need to be escaped in a URI. The only characters allowed in a URI are either "reserved", "unreserved", or an escape sequence (`%` followed by two hex digits).
isAllowedInURI :: Char -> Bool
Returns `True` if the character is allowed in a URI.
isUnescapedInURI :: Char -> Bool
Returns `True` if the character is allowed unescaped in a URI.
escapeURIChar :: (Char -> Bool) -> Char -> String
Escape character if supplied predicate is not satisfied, otherwise return character as singleton string.
escapeURIString

:: (Char -> Bool) | a predicate which returns `False` if the character should be escaped
-> String | the string to process
-> String | the resulting URI string
Can be used to make a string valid for use in a URI.

unEscapeString :: String -> String
Turns all instances of escaped characters in the string back into literal characters.
URI Normalization functions
normalizeCase :: String -> String
Case normalization; cf. RFC2396bis section 6.2.2.1 NOTE: authority case normalization is not performed
normalizeEscape :: String -> String
Encoding normalization; cf. RFC2396bis section 6.2.2.2
normalizePathSegments :: String -> String
Path segment normalization; cf. RFC2396bis section 6.2.2.4
Deprecated functions
escapeString :: String -> (Char -> Bool) -> String
reserved :: Char -> Bool
unreserved :: Char -> Bool
scheme :: URI -> String
authority :: URI -> String
path :: URI -> String
query :: URI -> String
fragment :: URI -> String
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