Hi All,

I am trying to set a HTTP header to "text/html" and I am having no joy.

This is what I have so far... Am I far off? How can I do this?


using System;

class Hello
{
     static void Main()
     {
          Console.ContentType = "text/html";
          Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
     }
}

Thanks in advance.

Hi tarran,

What exactly is the point of setting the ContentType of the console in a console application???

I think you're mixing COnsole Applications and Web applications...


What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

Imar

Hi Imar,

Firstly, thank you for your reply.

I am trying to make a CGI application but I don't want to use ASP.NET - Just straight c#... I am rather new to C# and maybe there is a better way to do this however If I wanted to do the same thing in c++ i would do:

#include <iostream.h>

int main(){
    cout << "Content-type: text/plain" << endl << endl
    << "Hello World";
}

Am I going about this the wrong way? How should I be doing this remembering I don't want to use ASP.NET, only c#?

Thanks once again.
Tarran

Hi again,

Well, a Console application won't cut it, as it will only run like a console application. I don't think you can tell IIS or any other Web server to redirect requests to the console.

What you probably need to create is your own custom HttpHandler that can run as an ISAPI extension . You can configure IIS applications to redirect requests to your HttpHandler, allowing you to bypass or enhance the ASP.NET functionality.
A while ago I created an HttpHandler to build a more powerful redirector that redirected Web sites to another server, while maintaining QueryString variables and logging the redirects. It was as easy as inheriting the right classes / implementing interfaces, and adding a few lines of code.

Here's the MSDN start page for HttpHandlers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true

Another interesting article: http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020417.htm

Searching Google for HttpHandlers .NET will give you quite some interesting results.

Cheers,

Imar
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