[Mono-dev] HttpListener

[Greg Young]

I was thinking a basic code api that allowed the specification of
interface to bind to separately from which prefixes to accept to start
with. The biggest issue here is that the ms api is basically using
httpprefix to mean two very different things.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:
> 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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