[Mono-dev] HttpListener

[Miguel de Icaza]

Well, it might be best if you explain what you have in mind, before we
waste time with a pull request.

But either way works.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>> > --
> >>> > Studying for the Turing test
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
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