SpaceWizards.HttpListener

A relatively lightweight and embeddable HTTP server for .NET. SpaceWizards.HttpListener is a maintained, updated, and unprofessionally butchered fork of the managed implementation of System.Net.HttpListener straight out of https://github.com/dotnet/runtime. This means:

• Will always use the fully managed implementation of HttpListener. On Windows, System.Net.HttpListener uses a different backend than Mac/Linux, namely the original http.sys backend. This functions very differently in behavior and bugs, which is unsuitable for cross-platform apps. Furthermore, binding something like 0.0.0.0:1212 with it requires admin even if a plain TCP socket would be fine otherwise.
• Bugfixes over the .NET Runtime implementation, which is basically unmaintained short of being kept around for compatibility. The original Mono implementation Mac/Linux HttpListener uses is quite buggy.
• You may expect some more modern innovations and maybe breaking changes. We're primarily maintaining this for RobustToolbox so there you go.

Release Notes

See RELEASE-NOTES.md.

Examples

Literally any of the tutorials for System.Net.HttpListener will probably do. There are also our usages in Robust:

• Simple HTTP server for game server control and querying APIs
• Alternative HTTP server implementation for prometheus-net