[Mono-dev] HttpListener

[Greg Young]

Miguel,

Would it be best to just take a stab at an alternative interface and
send a PR for discussion?

Greg

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the code handling the prefixes its here
> https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/mcs/class/System/System.Net/EndPointManager.cs#L43
>
> There is quite a bit of odd code around this in general. I understand
> much of it is trying to reach compliance with MS but ...
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>> > --
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>>>
>>>
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