Re: sslstream and certificates

From: Jakob Nielsen (a_at_b.c)
Date: 05/27/05 

Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:17:09 +0200

> Actually, I think for what you are doing, it probably makes sense. You
> would need to be using IIS to host ASP.NET which it doesn't sound like you
> want to do.

Nah, that would not really be an option.

> I believe there is another model though that might be easier than using
> raw TCP. In .NET 2.0, I believe there is a new HttpListener class that
> interfaces directly with HTTP.SYS. This only works on Win2K3 and XP SP2
> so far (as they are the only ones with the required driver), but it might
> give you a higher level of abstraction.

That certainly sounds interesting. I enjoy reinventing the wheel as much as
the next guy, but for the final product it is nice to have less of your own
code to debug :-)
Thanks for the tip..... hm.. is a tip in english the money you pay at
restaurants and so on, or are they allså pointers as in danish? Hmm...oh
well.. thanks anyway :-)

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