[Mono-dev] HttpListener

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello Greg,

Is that in HttpListener, or somewhere else?

Miguel

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here is some of the code in question:
>
> IPAddress addr;
> if (host == "*")
>     addr = IPAddress.Any;
> else if (IPAddress.TryParse(host, out addr) == false){
>     try {
>         IPHostEntry iphost = Dns.GetHostByName(host);
>        if (iphost != null)
>             addr = iphost.AddressList[0];
>        else
>             addr = IPAddress.Any;
>    } catch {
>         addr = IPAddress.Any;
>    }
> }
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have been going through a bunch of this code lately after seeing
> > many ... interesting behaviours. I understand that much of the derp in
> > this code is due to not having IIS and MS having an IIS centric API
> > but wow. Some gems I have found...
> >
> > 1) synchronous dns calls being made...
> > 2) I want to listen on 192.168.0.1:1234 but I want to support a host
> > header of whateverdomain can't resolve whatever domain then bind
> > listeners to all ips on machine.
> > 3) Same as above but dns entry has multiple ips it resovles to [0]
> > doesnt match see #2
> > 4) Anything at all to do with elastic ips
> > 5) Exceptions thrown to calling code with http status codes in them (I
> > think this is ms legacy but is a pretty biog wtf)
> > 6) failure parsing ip address says bind all interfaces on machine (huh?)
> >
> > Perhaps it makes sense to expose a "Microsoft Http Compatibility
> > Layer" and then have a "Sane API if you want to use it"
> >
> > I dont mind putting some time in on these but is this even worthwhile
> > or is the plan to just burn this code with fire and move to something
> > sane in general?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Greg
> > --
> > Studying for the Turing test
>
>
>
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