// This example requires the System and System.Net namespaces.
public static void SimpleListenerExample(string[] prefixes)
{
if (!HttpListener.IsSupported)
{
Console.WriteLine ("Windows XP SP2 or Server 2003 is required to use the HttpListener class.");
return;
}
// URI prefixes are required,
// for example "http://contoso.com:8080/index/".
if (prefixes == null || prefixes.Length == 0)
throw new ArgumentException("prefixes");
// Create a listener.
HttpListener listener = new HttpListener();
// Add the prefixes.
foreach (string s in prefixes)
{
listener.Prefixes.Add(s);
}
listener.Start();
Console.WriteLine("Listening...");
// Note: The GetContext method blocks while waiting for a request.
HttpListenerContext context = listener.GetContext();
HttpListenerRequest request = context.Request;
// Obtain a response object.
HttpListenerResponse response = context.Response;
// Construct a response.
string responseString = "<HTML><BODY> Hello world!</BODY></HTML>";
byte[] buffer = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(responseString);
// Get a response stream and write the response to it.
response.ContentLength64 = buffer.Length;
System.IO.Stream output = response.OutputStream;
output.Write(buffer,0,buffer.Length);
// You must close the output stream.
output.Close();
listener.Stop();
}