Write your own web server in less than 40 lines
I've recently been toying with the System.Net.Sockets namespace... and this is how easy it is to write your own web server:
using System;
using
System.Collections.Generic;
using
System.Text;
using
System.Net;
using System.IO;
using
System.Net.Sockets;
using
System.Threading;
namespace
MyFirstWebServer
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[]
args)
{
TcpListener
listener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"),
8010);
listener.Start();
TcpClient
client = listener.AcceptTcpClient();
NetworkStream
networkStream = client.GetStream();
StreamReader
reader = new StreamReader(networkStream);
StreamWriter
writer = new StreamWriter(networkStream);
String
line = reader.ReadLine();
while
(line != null && line.Length > 0)
{
Console.WriteLine(line);
line = reader.ReadLine();
}
writer.WriteLine("<html><head><title>Hello
World!</title></head><body>Hello
World!</body></html>");
writer.Flush();
networkStream.Close();
reader.Close();
writer.Close();
while
(true)
{
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
}
}
}
The TCPListener accepts a pending connection request, writes out the request header to the console and returns the HTML string containing the "hello world".
The header output from the browser request:
The HTML string sent back to the browser:
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.