When To Use HttpHandlers And HttpModules
Dec 23, 2010When exactly to use HttpHandlers and HttpModules?Can't I write that code in ASPX pages' code behind?
View 1 RepliesWhen exactly to use HttpHandlers and HttpModules?Can't I write that code in ASPX pages' code behind?
View 1 RepliesI'd like to clean up the web.config and remove unneeded XML.
A default ASP.NET 3.5 web application has the follow elements in the web.config:
<httpHandlers>
<remove verb="*" path="*.asmx"/>
<add verb="*" path="*.asmx" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add verb="*" path="*_AppService.axd" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add verb="GET,HEAD" path="ScriptResource.axd" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" validate="false"/>
</httpHandlers>
<httpModules>
<add name="ScriptModule" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptModule, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add name="UrlRoutingModule" type="System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule, System.Web.Routing, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
</httpModules>
When running under IIS7, which has modules and handlers being registered under the system.webServer element, is the configuration above still needed?
i know how to implement this thing..
but i have few question like..
wot is the major purpose of using HttpHandler & HttpModules..
and how they work with page life cycle..?did they get executed b4 page life cycle..?where i got more control and more power
in order to utilize HttpHandler & HttpModules..
I have the following module
public class LowerCaseRequest : IHttpModule
{
public void Init(HttpApplication context)
{
context.BeginRequest += new EventHandler(this.OnBeginRequest);
[Code]....
It works grate on my PC running XP and IIS 5.1
but on my webserver running IIS7 and WS 2008 dosn't works.
I recently started learning about HttpModules and made my first one. I was wondering if someone could explain why some modules in the the web.config include a lot of extra info and others do not.
example: not much info
<add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah"/>
example a lot of info
<add name="UrlRoutingModule" type="System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule, System.Web.Routing, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
What is a publickeytoken, version, culture. Do I need to do anything special to use those?
Suppose that both FirstModule and SecondModule handle the Application_BeginRequest event. Will it execute in the order defined in the web.config?
<httpModules>
<add type="MyApp.FirstModule, MyApp" name="FirstModule"/>
<add type="MyApp.SecondModule, MyApp" name="SecondModule"/>
<add type="OtherApp.OtherModule, OtherApp" name="OtherModule"/>
</httpModules>
Are there other ways that the order can be specified?
I attempted to find any information in regards to best practices of handling errors inside of a HttpModule unfortunately I can't seem to find any information on Google in regards to this.
All the information I've found all pertains in how to use the global.asax or a custom http module to log errors which is completely not pertinent.
Edit: Clearly this question has been misunderstood. I am seeking information regarding software patterns that are employed to prevent a HttpModules from faulting, triggering custom errors redirection, and faulting again causing infinite exception chains until IIS shuts down the thread entirely.
This however is very nontrivial since the HttpSessionState collection can't be depended on for the life cycle of HttpModules. Since error conditions have already occurred it would be improper to expect that I could read the ASP.NET session cookie to get an identifier that I could store user specific data in the application cache. Storing data in the HttpRequest.Items collection would be pointless since that in no way exists across multiple requests.
I need to get an image from a SQL Server as a byte[], and load it to a WebControl.Image. The only seemingly good way to do it that I found is to implement IHttpHandler and handle the request accordingly.But I'm stuck to using asp.net 1.1. Does it support ashx files?
View 1 RepliesI've defined a custom HttpHandler,
public class RequestHandler : IHttpHandler
Which I pass all my requests through,
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="RequestHandler" path="*" verb="*" type="WebApplication6.RequestHandler" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
Does this class get re-constructed every time someone requests a page or not?
How do we findout the whether the application is using any HTTPModules and httphandler in the applicaion?Is there anyway to findout from the url without checking the web.config file?
View 1 RepliesDigging deeper into HttpHandlers I found they provide nice way to customize an ASP.NET application. I am new to ASP.NET and I want to know about different customizations that are possible using HttpHandlers. Lots of websites talk about how they are implemented but it would be nice to know some use cases beyond what ASP.NET already provides using HttpHandlers.
View 2 RepliesI've never fully understood this property of the IHttpHandler. It is a property that you have to set when you implement the interface. I've assumed that setting it to true would be better for performance, but I am not sure what the negative side effects might be. Should I return true or false?
View 3 RepliesI got a website [URL] and I want to redirect http://www.example.com/folder to http://folder.example.com so if
folder has a page called example1.aspx [URL]
It should be called in this way:
http://folder.example.com/example1.aspx Is that possible that using IIS 7 and asp.net 4.
what is httphandler?what is the use ?
View 7 RepliesI have a HttpModule that rewrites the url:
eg: Folder/StaticPage.aspx?PageName=TestPage is re-written as
Folder/TestPage
This works fine on my local dev. machine on the Cassini server. But when its hosted in IIS (5.1 & 7.0) it fails to work, with the error as 404 Page Not Found.
I have written simple http module just to print Hello. but it is not working.
View 10 RepliesI am using Httphandler to access my pages. Have Loginstatus Control on the master pages.
OnLoggingOut for the Loginstatus control I am doing a Session.abandon()... But My session_end
does not get called in the Gobal.asax.I tried link button and everything. but when I take out the httphandler the Session_end gets executed in global.asax
I can handle the full session end on my own but is there any way to call Session_end in global.asax?
I have a bit confusion about the Http Handlers,Generic Handlers and the usage of those two.
View 1 RepliesI have an ASP.NET application with 5 .ashx HTTPHandlers that implement RequiresSessionState or IReadOnlySessionState.Upon calling the first handler I create a variable and store it in the session.When I call the next HttpHandler the variable is not available in the session object.I am use context.Session.I have a global.asax where I retrieve the sessionId.Is there a way to preserve session variables across HttpHandlers or does each Handler get its own session?
View 1 RepliesIn my new job, they have already written an httphandler to handle all the .aspx files, and they are not using asp.net's httphandler. Now, I want to use asp.net's regular .aspx httphandler for some web pages (.aspx files) in the project and the other pages need to be handled using their customized httphandler, i.e., 2 httphandlers for same file type (.aspx), how to do this?
View 1 RepliesIf I have an & in the URL I get a bad request. I have followed the instructions at [URL] but still no luck. If I remove
[Code]....
from web.config it works. Encoding the URL does not help.
I am trying to attach a pdf to a MailMessage, but it is not a file, rather it is a web page.
Allthough the pages respondes the PDF normaly, when I am attatching the IO.Stream to MailMessage, it is only 300B, so it cannot be opened.
This is the code:
[Code]....
Also I tried this one, but failed too:
[Code]....
I wants to url rewriting like as subdomain.
For example my website is website.com so that now i wants to url rewriting like
client1.website.com ,
client2.website.com,
client3.website.com,
clientN.website.com
In my website there are list of client whenever click on client my url like this
website.com/client.aspx?client=client1
website.com/client.aspx?client=client2
website.com/client.aspx?client=client3
website.com/client.aspx?client=clientN
Now i wants to url rewriting like as
client1.website.com
client2.website.com
client3.website.com
clientN.website.com
Also whenever once client is registered,After that client can directly open site
I have created my url rewrite handler and its working fine, but on live site i have IIS 6
and its not accepting the subdomain requests
when i type
http://website.com
it works fine but with
http://sub.wesite.com
i got the error Server not found
the project i'm working right now, client wants to make url seo friendly, if any event would enter from the admin section the url should show the name of the event itself.
right now it shows www.--------.com/eventdetails.aspx?id=879878
but the client wants www.---------.com/eventname/
the event comes dynamically every day.