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from zope.interface import Interface

class IUrl(Interface):
  """
  """

  def asURL():
    """
    Returns a text representation of the Url if defined
    or None else.
    """


  def fromURL(url):
    """
    Analyses a URL and splits it into two parts. URLs
    normally follow RFC 1738. However, we accept URLs
    without the protocol a.k.a. scheme part (http, mailto, etc.). In this
    case only the url_string a.k.a. scheme-specific-part is taken
    into account. asURL will then generate the full URL.
    """

  def getURLServer():
    """
    Returns the server part of a URL
    """

  def getURLPort():
    """
    Returns the port part of a URL
    """

  def getURLPath():
    """
    Returns the path part of a URL
    """

  def asNormalisedURL(base_url=None):
    """
    Returns a normalised version of the url so
    that we do not download twice the same content.
    This normalisation must refer to the same resource !
    Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization .

    base_url - Specify a default URL and a default target
               for all links on a page.
               if url is a relative link, we try to compute an absolute url
               with help of base_url
    """