module for the Apache HTTP Server.
"Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]" <dinoch@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> For more info on this topic, see
>
> The IHttpHandler interface
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWebIHttpHandlerClassTopic.asp >
> URL Mapping in ASP.NET without extensions:
>
http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/943.aspx >
>
> --
> To configure an HTTP Handler, you would specify something like this in the
> web.config:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <configuration>
> <system.web>
> <httpHandlers>
> <add verb="*" path="albums/*" validate="false"
> type="nGallery.Lib.AlbumRequestHandler, nGalleryLib" />
> </httpHandlers>
>
> within the type="...", you specify the fully-qualified type name that
> defines the IHttpHandler, and that type should be on the app's load path,
> typically in the bin subdirectory.
>
> Within that handler, you can do what you want. It is not restricted to
> URLs that end in particular . The interface is simple, consisting of a
> single method, ProcessRequest(), which feels something like the service()
> method of the Java Servlet.
>
> public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
> {
> }
>
> Now, for any request that arrives of the form
> http://yourserver/albums/something/something ,
> your handler gets called, and you decide what to do with the request:
> handle it, rewrite the URL, forward the request, or do something else.
> It's up to you. But the key is, your handler layers on ASP.NET, which in
> turn depends on IIS. IIS needs to send the incoming request to ASP.NET
> before your handler can be activated. By default, IIS sends only requests
> with extensions like .aspx and .asmx to ASP.NET, so your handler won't get
> activated, by default, for URLs that lack these extensions. In other
> words you would need http://yourserver/albums/something/something.aspx .
> The second link above discusses how to activate your IHttpHandler for "all
> requests" of any extension, and also some of the pitfalls of that
> technique.
>
>
> -Dino
>