Comments on: ASHX files and HttpHandlers http://www.justinrhinesmith.com/blog/2008/05/11/ashx-files-and-httphandlers/ Adventures in Programming Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:54:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Misty Fowler http://www.justinrhinesmith.com/blog/2008/05/11/ashx-files-and-httphandlers/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Misty Fowler Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:30:31 +0000 http://www.justinrhinesmith.com/blog/2008/05/11/ashx-files-and-httphandlers/#comment-513 Justin, I found your coverage of Scott Hanselman's interview questions as I was preparing for an interview. Good job, btw! In interviews, I often have a hard time explaining concepts that I use every day, so I was looking around for a way to eloquently answer some of the questions. For anyone else in the same boat, who understands the concepts of an .ashx file and HTTPHandler, but need a better way to present that knowledge, I'd simplify it this way: An .ashx file is an HttpHandler, and inherits from IHttpHandler. Like any file that might be requested, IIS is set up to direct the file to a worker process based on the extension. The HttpHandler has only one method, one property and no events, and eventually every request in the web application goes through it. Justin,

I found your coverage of Scott Hanselman’s interview questions as I was preparing for an interview. Good job, btw!

In interviews, I often have a hard time explaining concepts that I use every day, so I was looking around for a way to eloquently answer some of the questions. For anyone else in the same boat, who understands the concepts of an .ashx file and HTTPHandler, but need a better way to present that knowledge, I’d simplify it this way:

An .ashx file is an HttpHandler, and inherits from IHttpHandler. Like any file that might be requested, IIS is set up to direct the file to a worker process based on the extension. The HttpHandler has only one method, one property and no events, and eventually every request in the web application goes through it.

]]> By: JustinRhinesmith.com » Custom Page Extensions in ASP.NET http://www.justinrhinesmith.com/blog/2008/05/11/ashx-files-and-httphandlers/comment-page-1/#comment-4 JustinRhinesmith.com » Custom Page Extensions in ASP.NET Fri, 16 May 2008 23:34:31 +0000 http://www.justinrhinesmith.com/blog/2008/05/11/ashx-files-and-httphandlers/#comment-4 [...] As it turns out, custom extensions are not all that difficult in ASP.NET assuming you have no aversions to getting under the hood and making some changes to IIS.  It also ties back nicely to the last post I did in this series that covered ASHX files and HttpHandlers. [...] [...] As it turns out, custom extensions are not all that difficult in ASP.NET assuming you have no aversions to getting under the hood and making some changes to IIS.  It also ties back nicely to the last post I did in this series that covered ASHX files and HttpHandlers. [...]

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