nsIHandlerInfo in Firefox 3.6a1pre

 nsIHandlerInfo gives access to the information about how a given protocol
 scheme or MIME-type is handled.

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Constants

const long saveToDisk = 0

 Used to indicate that we know nothing about what to do with this.  You
 could consider this to be not initialized.

const long alwaysAsk = 1

const long useHelperApp = 2

const long handleInternally = 3

const long useSystemDefault = 4

Attributes

 alwaysAskBeforeHandling: if true, we should always give the user a
 dialog asking how to dispose of this content.

attribute boolean alwaysAskBeforeHandling

 A pretty name description of the associated default application. Only
 usable if hasDefaultHandler is true.

readonly attribute AString defaultDescription

 A human readable description of the handler type

attribute AString description

 Indicates whether a default application handler exists,
 i.e. whether launchWithFile with action = useSystemDefault is possible
 and defaultDescription will contain usable information.

readonly attribute boolean hasDefaultHandler

 Applications that can handle this content type.

 The list will include the preferred handler, if any.  Elements of this
 array are nsIHandlerApp objects, and this attribute will always reference
 an array, whether or not there are any possible handlers.  If there are
 no possible handlers, the array will contain no elements, so just check
 its length (nsIArray::length) to see if there are any possible handlers.

readonly attribute nsIMutableArray possibleApplicationHandlers

 preferredAction is how the user specified they would like to handle
 this content type: save to disk, use specified helper app, use OS
 default handler or handle using navigator; possible value constants
 listed below

attribute nsHandlerInfoAction preferredAction

 The application the user has said they want associated with this content
 type. This is not always guaranteed to be set!!

attribute nsIHandlerApp preferredApplicationHandler

 The type of this handler info.  For MIME handlers, this is the MIME type.
 For protocol handlers, it's the scheme.
 
 @return String representing the type.

readonly attribute ACString type

Methods

 Launches the application with the specified URI, in a way that
 depends on the value of preferredAction. preferredAction must be
 useHelperApp or useSystemDefault.
  
 @note Only the URI scheme is used to determine how to launch.  This is
 essentially a pass-by-value operation.  This means that in the case of
 a file: URI, the handler that is registered for file: will be launched
 and our code will not make any decision based on the content-type or
 extension, though the invoked file: handler is free to do so. 

 @param aURI
        The URI to launch this application with

 @param aWindowContext 
        The window to parent the dialog against, and, if a web handler
        is chosen, it is loaded in this window as well.  See 
        nsIHandlerApp.launchWithURI for more details.

 @throw NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if preferredAction is not valid for this
 call. Other exceptions may be thrown.

void launchWithURI(in nsIURI aURI, [optional] in nsIInterfaceRequestor aWindowContext)