Comments on: Building a Basic Web Server Using WCF

By: Building an embedded MVC server « Simon says… architecture!

Building an embedded MVC server « Simon says… architecture! — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:02:03 +0000

[...] yesterday’s blog reading session I came across two interesting posts. First one was about building a web server using WCF. The other one was about testing ASP.NET MVC as a whole, [...]

By: jezell

jezell — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:21:09 +0000

Don't disagree. If all you want is basic raw HTTP support with no frills, you are probably better off just using HttpListener. WCF itself uses HttpListener under the covers. However, WCF isn't just about doing the same thing in a different way. WCF is about a uniform communication model. The nice thing about this approach is that the same interface and concepts also work with TCP, MSMQ, and any other WCF binding with very minimal effort. WCF also adds a standard extensibility model for things like tracing, performance counters, instancing, security, etc. With HttpListener, you just get the basics.

By: jezell

jezell — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:02:13 +0000

.NET 4.0 includes a new message encoder for raw byte streams that doesn't require as many tricks because it isn't coupled to the REST support that the WebMessageEncoder was designed for.

By: Darrel Miller

Darrel Miller — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:10:54 +0000

I think I know where and why you are going with this approach because I took a similar route previously. However, using the HttpListener class you can do this much easier and throw WCF away completely. WCF uses the HttpListener class under the covers itself to provide HTTP endpoints and then it wraps it all up with generic WCF goop. HttpListener is really quite easy to use and gives you direct access to the HTTP request and response information.

By: Larry Wall

Larry Wall — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:51:25 +0000

amazing. lots of progress in your world son. what are you 14? http://www.floodgap.com/httpi/. i hope some day you kids actually produce something new instead of the same old ideas wrapped in MSFT fan boi crap.