#HttpListener
Yeah, people have been doing #webdev on #windows for decades.

It's pretty popular in corp environments. #IIS still runs a lot of the #intranet.

I've been doing #PowerShell #WebDev for about 16 years now.

These days it's mostly cross-platform. #HttpListener + #PowerShell in a #Container #FTW
October 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
That's a really good callout. It's also a fairly secure default... If the script block can't access, say, $httplistener, it can't modify the object.

The more isolated context you can run your script in, the safer it will be.
December 24, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Yeah, IIS is no fun anymore (and maybe it never was).

#PHP in #IIS used to be fun.

#PowerShell in IIS used to be fun, until I realized how much easier it was to just use an HttpListener.

At least IIS in on the long road out. I don't know how much it will be missed.
October 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A quine in #komrad-lang 😍

The standard libary and all of the keywords are implemented as agents in a message passing system. `Fs read-all`, `spawn HttpListener` and `agent Alice {}` are all messages to another agent.

To make a quine, that means I've implemented `Io` and `Fs`. And a banner 😜 #rust
March 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Release v0.3.0 of SharpWebserver.

I completely rewrote the way the Listener works to be super duper async and abandoned the old client and request model I had written in favor of HTTPListener. Read more: github.com/RobynLlama/S...
Release v0.3.0 · RobynLlama/SharpWebserver
New in 0.3.0 Listener Model changed to HTTPListener Now uses an HTTPListener instead of a TCPListener Program loop is now entirely async, old loop removed Clients are accepted as they come Reques...
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February 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
We run #powershell on everything - it's the first #dotnet tool we install and always a handful of modules added by reflex. One is HttpListener for a variety of purposes. Here we use it to make a cheap-and-easy GitHub webhook listener for services that run in our lab. gist.github.com/houstonhayne...
Sample webhook and build/deploy script for .NET back end server
Sample webhook and build/deploy script for .NET back end server - Update-and-BuildProject.ps1
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November 18, 2024 at 3:41 AM
The link is not real yet, but I also implemented an HttpListener this week! So now it can be lol. This is based on warp and tokio #rust

You `spawn HttpListener { port=8080; delegate=me }` and then pattern match on `[http _request GET "users" _user] {...}` in your `agent`. This will be opensource.
March 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
For a bit more fun, you can also create a #WebSocket server/client with #PowerShell and HttpListener.

GitHub.com/PowerShellWe...

Gonna be using that to add a #Turtle #Graphics server to another project ( probably build after next )
GitHub - PowerShellWeb/WebSocket: Work with WebSockets in PowerShell
Work with WebSockets in PowerShell. Contribute to PowerShellWeb/WebSocket development by creating an account on GitHub.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
And if you want to go really "down the rabbit hole" here's a PS script using HttpListener that operates as a webhook listener that rebuilds and re-deploys the front and back end of a site. gist.github.com/houstonhayne...
Sample webhook and build/deploy script for .NET back end server
Sample webhook and build/deploy script for .NET back end server - Update-and-BuildProject.ps1
gist.github.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Yeah I'm grasping at straws :) stackoverflow shut down the question as wrong category, Reddit isn't much help lol www.reddit.com/r/IIs/s/1YWU...

People are saying it affects IIS as well but my first problem is httplistener because that's how my app talks to its service, for 200k+ users!
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October 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Nifty use of HttpListener.

Might I suggest putting it into a #docker #container ?
December 18, 2024 at 7:25 AM
i really just built an express styled webserver over c#'s httplistener huh
October 5, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Need help with HttpListener in WinUI app

#csharp #dotnet
Need help with HttpListener in WinUI app
Hi! I try to get authorization code for Microsoft, using authorization via browser. I use `HttpListener` for catching redirect with code, but it's...
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February 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
某アプリケーションのHttpListenerが動作しなくなっていたので、ぐぐって出てきたstackoverflowの投稿を参考に、直近のWindowsUpdateでインストールされたKB5066835をアンインストールしたら直った。
October 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
the intrusive thought to rawdog httplistener and just see what happens (i know it'll die within a couple seconds from instance traffic)
November 25, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Really interesting! I've been running powershell's HttpListener to pick up webhooks from GitHub and build/deploy sites. I've not been bothered to move that to #fsharp but this thread gives plenty of food for thought. gist.github.com/houstonhayne...
Sample webhook and build/deploy script for .NET back end server
Sample webhook and build/deploy script for .NET back end server - Update-and-BuildProject.ps1
gist.github.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Nah, writing #web #servers in #PowerShell are pretty easy, especially in Core.

Basically, you create a HttpListener, Listen for requests, and respond to them.

See this #gist

gist.github.com/StartAutomat...
Gist a small event-based HTTP server in PowerShell
Gist a small event-based HTTP server in PowerShell - EventBasedServer.ps1
gist.github.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM