ElMariachi.Http.Server 1.1.0

ElMariachi.Http.Server

Description

This project is a .NET Core HTTP server library written in C#.

Why ?

I decided to create my own HTTP server implementation for at least 3 reasons:

1. The native «System.Net.HttpListener» can't be run immediately without administrative privileges
2. The native «System.Net.HttpListener» is not really user friendly and quite old
3. I wanted to improve my skills on HTTP protocol

Key features

• No administrative privileges required
• Simple
• Fast
• Lightweight
• Extensible
• Abstraction for all classes
• Non destructive header parsing
• Transfer Encoding Support (gzip, chunked, deflate)
• Unit tested

Quick start

async void Main(string[] args)
{

    var serviceProvider = new ServiceCollection()
        .AddHttpServer() // Injects the HTTP server implementation in the ServiceCollection
        .BuildServiceProvider();

    // Create a new server
    var httpServer = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<IHttpServer>();
    httpServer.IPAddress = IPAddress.Any;
    httpServer.Port = 80;
    await httpServer.Start(OnRequest);
}

void OnRequest(IHttpRequest request)
{
    request.SendResponse(new HttpResponse(HttpStatus.Ok)
    {
        Content = new StringResponseContent("Hello World!", "text/plain")
    });
}

Additional notes

There are probably plenty of things to do to improve this library, some feel free to contribute.

I spent a lot of my free time to develop this library, so if you like it, feel free to buy me <s>a beer</s> some vegetables 😉