aspnetcore/src/Http

Http

Http is a collection of HTTP abstractions used in ASP.NET Core, such as HttpContext, HttpRequest, HttpResponse and RequestDelegate.

It also includes Endpoint Routing and WebUtilities.

Description

The following contains a description of each sub-directory in the Http directory.

• Authentication.Abstractions/: Contains common types used by the various authentication components.
• Authentication.Core/: Contains common types used by the various authentication middleware components.
• Headers/: Contains headers and header parser implementations.
• Http/: Contains default HTTP feature implementations.
• Http.Abstractions/: Contains HTTP object model for HTTP requests and responses and also common extension methods for registering middleware in an IApplicationBuilder.
• Http.Extensions/: Contains common extension methods for HTTP abstractions, HTTP headers, HTTP request/response, and session state.
• Http.Features/: Contains HTTP feature interface definitions.
• Metadata/: Contains ASP.NET Core metadata.
• Owin/: Contains components for running OWIN middleware in an ASP.NET Core application, and to run ASP.NET Core middleware in an OWIN application.
• Routing/: Contains middleware for routing requests to application logic and for generating links.
• Routing.Abstractions/: Contains abstractions for routing requests to application logic and for generating links.
• WebUtilities/: Contains utilities, for working with forms, multipart messages, and query strings.
• samples/: Contains samples.

Development Setup

Build

To build this specific project from source, follow the instructions on building the project.

Test

To run the tests for this project, run the tests on the command line in this directory.

More Information

For more information, see the ASP.NET Core README.