May anybody tell me what is the real use of HTTP handler in a corporate intranet application / large web application ?

In all the examples, I am seeing something printed onto browser using HTTPContext object etc. But, I am having some notion that this can be used to speed up applications by around 25% etc. May somebody give me an example of its usage in some realtime situation ? What is the advantage of creating an HTTP handler and redirecting HTTP requests to it ?

Thanks

Madhu Kampurath

We only render using HTTPHandlers a images