javax.microedition.io
Class HttpProtocolPermission

java.lang.Object
  java.security.Permission
      javax.microedition.io.GCFPermission
          javax.microedition.io.HttpProtocolPermission

public final class HttpProtocolPermission

extends GCFPermission

This class represents access rights to connections via the "http" protocol. A HttpProtocolPermission consists of a URI string but no actions list.

The URI string specifies a data resource accessible via http. It takes the following general form:

 http://{host}[:{portspec}][{pathname}][?{query}][#{fragment}]
 

(See RFC 3986 for more information.) The value of the {host} field must be a symbolic hostname, a literal IPv4 address or a literal IPv6 address, as specified by RFC 3986. If the {host} string is a DNS name, an asterisk may appear in the leftmost position to indicate a match of 1 or more entire domain labels. Partial domain label matches are not permitted, therefore "*.sun.com" is valid, but "*sun.com" is not. An asterisk by itself matches all hosts.

The {portspec} string takes the following form:

 portnumber | -portnumber | portnumber-[portnumber] | "*" | empty string
 

A {portspec} specification of the form "N-" (where N is a port number) signifies all ports numbered N and above, while a specification of the form "-N" indicates all ports numbered N and below. A single asterisk in the place of the {portspec} field matches all ports; therefore, the URI "http://*:*" matches http connections to all hosts on all ports. If the {portspec} field is omitted, default port 80 is assumed.

See Also:

Connector.open(java.lang.String), "javax.microedition.io.HttpConnection" in MIDP 3.0 Specification

Constructor Summary

HttpProtocolPermission(String uri)
Creates a new HttpProtocolPermission with the specified URI as its name.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj) Checks two HttpProtocolPermission objects for equality.
String	getActions() Returns the canonical string representation of the actions, which currently is the empty string "", since there are no actions defined for HttpProtocolPermission.
int	hashCode() Returns the hash code value for this object.
boolean	implies(Permission p) Checks if this HttpProtocolPermission object "implies" the specified permission.
PermissionCollection	newPermissionCollection() Returns a new PermissionCollection for storing HttpProtocolPermission objects.

Methods inherited from class javax.microedition.io.GCFPermission

getProtocol, getURI

Methods inherited from class java.security.Permission

getName, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HttpProtocolPermission

public HttpProtocolPermission(String uri)

Creates a new HttpProtocolPermission with the specified URI as its name. The URI string must conform to the specification given above, and is normalized to facilitate subsequent comparisons.

Parameters:

uri - the URI string.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if uri is malformed.

NullPointerException - if uri is null.

See Also:

Permission.getName()

Method Detail

implies

public boolean implies(Permission p)

Checks if this HttpProtocolPermission object "implies" the specified permission.

Because the {host} field of the permission URI may indicate an individual host by means of either a symbolic hostname or an IP address, a thorough evaluation of the implies relation between two HttpProtocolPermission objects requires the underlying platform to be able to transform symbolic hostnames into IP addresses (via address lookup) and vice-versa (via name lookup). Either service may be unavailable on a given platform. As a result, the comparison of URI strings from two permissions can only be best-effort. For each HttpProtocolPermission constructed with a URI that contains a {host} field, the implementation will attempt to determine both the fully-qualified domain name (the "canonical name") and the IP address(es) of the host. However, either value may be unknown.

To determine whether this object implies another permission, p, this method first ensures that all of the following are true (and returns false if any of them are not):

• p is an instanceof HttpProtocolPermission, and

• p's port range is included in this port range.

Then implies checks each of the following, in order, and for each returns true if the stated condition is true:

• If this object has a single IP address and one of p's IP addresses is equal to this object's IP address.

• If this object has a wildcard domain (such as *.sun.com), and p's absolute name (the name with any preceding * removed) ends with this object's aboslute name. For example, *.sun.com implies *.eng.sun.com.

• If this object has multiple IP addresses, and one of this object's IP addresses equals one of p's IP addresses.

• If this object's canonical name equals p's canonical name.

If none of the above are true, implies returns false.

Note that the {pathname}, {query} and {fragment} components are not used when evaluating the 'implies' relation.

Specified by:

implies in class Permission

Parameters:

p - the permission to check against.

Returns:

true if the specified permission is implied by this object, false if not.

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Checks two HttpProtocolPermission objects for equality.

Specified by:

equals in class Permission

Parameters:

obj - the object we are testing for equality with this object.

Returns:

true if obj is a HttpProtocolPermission and has the same URI string as this HttpProtocolPermission object.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Returns the hash code value for this object.

Specified by:

hashCode in class Permission

Returns:

a hash code value for this object.

getActions

public String getActions()

Returns the canonical string representation of the actions, which currently is the empty string "", since there are no actions defined for HttpProtocolPermission.

Specified by:

getActions in class Permission

Returns:

the empty string "".

newPermissionCollection

public PermissionCollection newPermissionCollection()

Returns a new PermissionCollection for storing HttpProtocolPermission objects.

HttpProtocolPermission objects must be stored in a manner that allows them to be inserted into the collection in any order, but that also enables the PermissionCollection implies method to be implemented in an efficient (and consistent) manner.

Overrides:

newPermissionCollection in class Permission

Returns:

a new PermissionCollection suitable for storing HttpProtocolPermission objects.