Where’s Lou

Two posts in a month! Hard to believe.

This one is to introduce Dragonfly – which is another 100% C# HTTP server. It’s designed from the ground up to be an OWIN host, of course, and is entirely non-blocking. This is similar to other open source managed web servers like Kayak and to some extent others like Manos.

Why start another C# HTTP server? Well, to some extent this started as an exercise to have another test harness to help troubleshoot and validate Gate and OWIN, rather than as a functional HTTP server of its own. It has from that grown into something that I felt had enough value to share as a standalone project.
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Hello everyone! First – to break the cardinal rule of posting on stale blogs – it’s been nine months!? Time flies! Okay, now that’s out of the way.

The topic of this post is OWIN – specifically the 0.2.1 refresh of the Gate reference implementation which has been released to NuGet.org.

You can test-drive these bits yourself, if you would like, from a simple C# console application. I’m assuming you have NuGet installed, right? Good! So in a new console app (HelloWorld.exe in my case) from the Package Manager Console install either Gate.Stack.Kayak.Nancy or Gate.Stack.HttpListener.Nancy. You can also right-click the project and select Manage NuGet Packages… to accomplish the same thing. The various Gate.Stack.* you will find are umbrella packages that pull in several dependencies and add a few example source files.
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