A .NET web server

[Charles]

Anyone care to check this out and try it with Cobra? http://www.codeplex.com/webserver

[khjklujn]

Cool. Been looking for something like this.

A loose translation of Tutorial1 behaved as expected:

use System.Net
use HttpServer

class Test

    pro running from var = false
    get listener from var = HttpServer.HttpListener.create(IPAddress.any, 8081)

    cue init
        base.init

        print 'Browse to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://localhost:8081/hello">http://localhost:8081/hello</a><!-- m --> to view the contents 
        print 'and <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://localhost:8081/bye">http://localhost:8081/bye</a><!-- m --> to shut down the server.'

        listen .listener.requestReceived, ref .onRequest

        .listener.start(5)
        .running = true

    def onRequest(source, args as RequestEventArgs?)
        context = source to IHttpClientContext
        request = args.request

        if request.uri.absolutePath == '/hello'
            context.respond('Hello to you too!')

        else if request.uriParts.length == 1 and request.uriParts[0] == 'bye'
            response = HttpResponse(context, request)
            writer = StreamWriter(response.body)
            writer.writeLine('Goodbye to you too!')
            writer.flush
            response.send
            .listener.stop
            .running = false

        else
            context.respond('Nope: [request.uri.absolutePath]')
    
    test
        t = Test()
        while t.running
            pass

[Charles]

That's great! Thanks!

Can you point it to a directory to load files from like "hello.cobra" and "bye.cobra"? If so it probably needs some kind of "adapter" to handle files of a given extension.

[Charles]

I'd still love to see more done with this including a sample web site. But I currently have the following coming up:
-- patch applications
-- add attribute capabilities requested by gauthier
-- release
-- monthly update
-- a presentation this month
-- jvm back-end
-- 5 more things that will come up in the next 2 weeks

[jgauffin]

If you need any fixes in the webserver, let me know and I'll take a look at it.

[jgauffin]

Let me know if you need any fixes in the webserver to get everything running smoothly in Cobra.

[Charles]

Thanks. You're the author of "C# WebServer", yes?

I really like the idea of an independent, open source app server. I wrote one for Python (Webware/WebKit) but don't have time to write one for Cobra.

We really just need a better example of making a real, dynamic site with this and Cobra. And maybe that also entails some integration work. We'll see.

(Sorry your message didn't get approved sooner. I'm still getting used to the moderator interface which splits new messages into 2 tabs.)

[Charles]

I've added a wiki page at SharpWebServer. Not much there, but we can add notes as we pick up more experience.

Also, I tested whether it works on Novell Mono on Mac and it does.

I think my next step will be to build it out of their repository as I see some activity there with fixes and refinements.

[Charles]

This is a better loop. Doesn't burn up the CPU:

while .isRunning, Threading.Thread.sleep(750)