public static void SimpleListenerWithUnsafeAuthentication(string[] prefixes)
{
// URI prefixes are required,
// for example "http://contoso.com:8080/index/".
if (prefixes == null || prefixes.Length == 0)
throw new ArgumentException("prefixes");
// Set up a listener.
HttpListener listener = new HttpListener();
foreach (string s in prefixes)
{
listener.Prefixes.Add(s);
}
listener.Start();
// Specify Negotiate as the authentication scheme.
listener.AuthenticationSchemes = AuthenticationSchemes.Negotiate;
// If NTLM is used, we will allow multiple requests on the same
// connection to use the authentication information of first request.
// This improves performance but does reduce the security of your
// application.
listener.UnsafeConnectionNtlmAuthentication = true;
// This listener does not want to receive exceptions
// that occur when sending the response to the client.
listener.IgnoreWriteExceptions = true;
Console.WriteLine("Listening...");
// ... process requests here.
listener.Close();
}