IURIResolver.as

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package com.adobe.net
{
	/**
	 * The URI class cannot know about DNS aliases, virtual hosts, or
	 * symbolic links that may be involved.  The application can provide
	 * an implementation of this interface to resolve the URI before the
	 * URI class makes any comparisons.  For example, a web host has
	 * two aliases:
	 * 
	 * <p><code>
	 *    http://www.site.com/
	 *    http://www.site.net/
	 * </code></p>
	 * 
	 * <p>The application can provide an implementation that automatically
	 * resolves site.net to site.com before URI compares two URI objects.
	 * Only the application can know and understand the context in which
	 * the URI's are being used.</p>
	 * 
	 * <p>Use the URI.resolver accessor to assign a custom resolver to
	 * the URI class.  Any resolver specified is global to all instances
	 * of URI.</p>
	 * 
	 * <p>URI will call this before performing URI comparisons in the
	 * URI.getRelation() and URI.getCommonParent() functions.</p>
	 * 
	 * @see URI.getRelation
	 * @see URI.getCommonParent
	 * 
	 * @langversion ActionScript 3.0
	 * @playerversion Flash 9.0
	 */
	public interface IURIResolver
	{
		/**
		 * Implement this method to provide custom URI resolution for
		 * your application.
		 * 
		 * @langversion ActionScript 3.0
		 * @playerversion Flash 9.0
		 */
		function resolve(uri:URI) : URI;
	}
}