我们在上面对ASP.NET Core默认提供的具有跨平台能力的KestrelServer进行了详细介绍（《聊聊ASP.NET Core默认提供的这个跨平台的服务器——KestrelServer》），为了让读者朋友们对管道中的Server具有更加深刻的认识，接下来我们采用实例演示的形式创建一个自定义的Server。这个自定义的Server直接利用HttpListener来完成针对请求的监听、接收和响应，我们将其命名为HttpListenerServer。在正式介绍HttpListenerServer的设计和实现之前，我们先来显示一下如何将它应用到 一个具体的Web应用中。

一、HttpListenerServer的使用

我们依然采用最简单的Hello World应用来演示针对HttpListenerServer的应用，所以我们在Startup类的Configure方法中编写如下的程序直接响应一个“Hello World”字符串。

   1: public class Startup

   2: {

   3:     public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)

   4:     {

   5:         app.Run(context => context.Response.WriteAsync("Hello World!"));

   6:     }

   7: }

在作为程序入口的Main方法中，我们直接创建一个WebHostBuilder对象并调用扩展方法UseHttpListener完成针对自定义HttpListenerServer的注册。我们接下来调用UseStartup方法注册上面定义的这个启动类型，然后调用Build方法创建一个WebHost对象，最后调用Run方法运行这个作为宿主的WebHost。

   1: public class Program

   2: {

   3:     public static void Main()

   4:     {

   5:         new WebHostBuilder()

   6:             .UseHttpListener()

   7:             .UseStartup()

   8:             .Build()

   9:             .Run();

  10:     }

  11: }

  12:  

  13: public static class WebHostBuilderExtensions

  14: {

  15:     public static IWebHostBuilder UseHttpListener(this IWebHostBuilder builder)

  16:     {

  17:         builder.ConfigureServices(services => services.AddSingleton());

  18:         return builder;

  19:     }

  20: }

我们自定义的扩展方法UseHttpListener的逻辑很简单，它只是调用WebHostBuilder的ConfigureServices方法将我们自定义的HttpListenerServer类型以单例模式注册到指定的ServiceCollection上而已。我们直接运行这个程序并利用浏览器访问默认的监听地址（http://localhost:5000），服务端响应的“Hello World”字符串会按照如下图所示的形式显示在浏览器上。

二、总体设计

接下来我们来介绍一下HttpListenerServer的大体涉及。除了HttpListenerServer这个实现了IServer的自定义Server类型之外，我们只定义了一个名为HttpListenerServerFeature的特性类型，下图所示的UML基本上体现了HttpListenerServer的总体设计。

三、HttpListenerServerFeature

如果我们利用HttpListener来监听请求，它会为接收到的每次请求创建一个属于自己的上下文，具体来说这是一个类型为HttpListenerContext对象。我们可以利用这个HttpListenerContext对象获取所有与请求相关的信息，针对请求的任何响应也都是利用它完成的。上面这个HttpListenerServerFeature实际上就是对这个作为原始上下文的HttpListenerContext对象的封装，或者说它是管道使用的DefaultHttpContext与这个原始上下文之间沟通的中介。

如下所示的代码片段展示了HttpListenerServerFeature类型的完整定义。简单起见，我们并没有实现上面提到过的所有特性接口，而只是选择性地实现了IHttpRequestFeature和IHttpResponseFeature这两个最为核心的特性接口。它的构造函数除了具有一个类型为HttpListenerContext的参数之外，还具有一个字符串的参数pathBase用来指定请求URL的基地址（对应IHttpRequestFeature的PathBase属性），我们利用它来计算请求URL的相对地址（对应IHttpRequestFeature的Path属性）。IHttpRequestFeature和IHttpResponseFeature中定义的属性都可以直接利用HttpListenerContext对应的成员来实现，这方面并没有什么特别之处。

   1: public class HttpListenerServerFeature : IHttpRequestFeature, IHttpResponseFeature

   2: {

   3:     private readonly HttpListenerContext     httpListenerContext;

   4:     private string            queryString;

   5:     private IHeaderDictionary         requestHeaders;

   6:     private IHeaderDictionary         responseHeaders;

   7:     private string            protocol;

   8:     private readonly string       pathBase;

   9:  

  10:     public HttpListenerServerFeature(HttpListenerContext httpListenerContext, string pathBase)

  11:     {

  12:         this.httpListenerContext     = httpListenerContext;

  13:         this.pathBase         = pathBase;

  14:     }

  15:  

  16:     #region IHttpRequestFeature

  17:  

  18:     Stream IHttpRequestFeature.Body

  19:     {

  20:         get { return httpListenerContext.Request.InputStream; }

  21:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  22:     }

  23:  

  24:     IHeaderDictionary IHttpRequestFeature.Headers

  25:     {

  26:         get { return requestHeaders 

  27:          ?? (requestHeaders = GetHttpHeaders(httpListenerContext.Request.Headers)); }

  28:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  29:     }

  30:  

  31:     string IHttpRequestFeature.Method

  32:     {

  33:         get { return httpListenerContext.Request.HttpMethod; }

  34:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  35:     }

  36:  

  37:     string IHttpRequestFeature.Path

  38:     {

  39:         get { return httpListenerContext.Request.RawUrl.Substring(pathBase.Length);}

  40:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  41:     }

  42:  

  43:     string IHttpRequestFeature.PathBase

  44:     {

  45:         get { return pathBase; }

  46:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  47:     }

  48:  

  49:     string IHttpRequestFeature.Protocol

  50:     {

  51:         get{ return protocol ?? (protocol = this.GetProtocol());}

  52:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  53:     }

  54:  

  55:     string IHttpRequestFeature.QueryString

  56:     {

  57:         Get { return queryString ?? (queryString = this.ResolveQueryString());}

  58:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  59:     }

  60:  

  61:     string IHttpRequestFeature.Scheme

  62:     {

  63:         get { return httpListenerContext.Request.IsWebSocketRequest ? "https" : "http"; }

  64:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  65:     }

  66:     #endregion

  67:  

  68:     #region IHttpResponseFeature

  69:     Stream IHttpResponseFeature.Body

  70:     {

  71:         get { return httpListenerContext.Response.OutputStream; }

  72:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  73:     }

  74:  

  75:     string IHttpResponseFeature.ReasonPhrase

  76:     {

  77:         get { return httpListenerContext.Response.StatusDescription; }

  78:         set { httpListenerContext.Response.StatusDescription = value; }

  79:     }

  80:  

  81:     bool IHttpResponseFeature.HasStarted

  82:     {

  83:         get { return httpListenerContext.Response.SendChunked; }

  84:     }

  85:  

  86:     IHeaderDictionary IHttpResponseFeature.Headers

  87:     {

  88:         get { return responseHeaders 

  89:             ?? (responseHeaders = GetHttpHeaders(httpListenerContext.Response.Headers)); }

  90:         set { throw new NotImplementedException(); }

  91:     }

  92:     int IHttpResponseFeature.StatusCode

  93:     {

  94:         get { return httpListenerContext.Response.StatusCode; }

  95:         set { httpListenerContext.Response.StatusCode = value; }

  96:     }

  97:  

  98:     void IHttpResponseFeature.OnCompleted(Func<object, Task> callback, object state)

  99:     {

 100:         throw new NotImplementedException();

 101:     }

 102:  

 103:     void IHttpResponseFeature.OnStarting(Func<object, Task> callback, object state)

 104:     {

 105:         throw new NotImplementedException();

 106:     }

 107:     #endregion

 108:  

 109:     private string ResolveQueryString()

 110:     {

 111:         string queryString = "";

 112:         var collection = httpListenerContext.Request.QueryString;

 113:         for (int i = 0; i < collection.Count; i++)

 114:         {

 115:             queryString += $"{collection.GetKey(i)}={collection.Get(i)}&";

 116:         }

 117:         return queryString.TrimEnd('&');

 118:     }

 119:  

 120:     private IHeaderDictionary GetHttpHeaders(NameValueCollection headers)

 121:     {

 122:         HeaderDictionary dictionary = new HeaderDictionary();

 123:         foreach (string name in headers.Keys)

 124:         {

 125:             dictionary[name] = new StringValues(headers.GetValues(name));

 126:         }

 127:         return dictionary;

 128:     }

 129:  

 130:     private string GetProtocol()

 131:     {

 132:         HttpListenerRequest request = httpListenerContext.Request;

 133:         Version version = request.ProtocolVersion;

 134:         return string.Format("{0}/{1}.{2}", request.IsWebSocketRequest ? "HTTPS" : "HTTP", version.Major, version.Minor);

 135:     }

 136: }

四、HttpListenerServer

接下来我们来看看HttpListenerServer的定义。如下面的代码片段所示，用来监听请求的HttpListener在构造函数中被创建，与此同时，我们会创建一个用于获取监听地址的ServerAddressesFeature对象并将其添加到属于自己的特性列表中。当HttpListenerServer随着Start方法的调用而被启动后，它将这个ServerAddressesFeature对象提取出来，然后利用它得到所有的地址并添加到HttpListener的Prefixes属性表示的监听地址列表中。接下来，HttpListener的Start方法被调用，并在一个无限循环中开启请求的监听与接收。

   1: public class HttpListenerServer : IServer

   2: {

   3:     private readonly HttpListener listener;

   4:  

   5:     public IFeatureCollection Features { get; } = new FeatureCollection();

   6:     

   7:     public HttpListenerServer()

   8:     {

   9:         listener = new HttpListener();

  10:         this.Features.Set(new ServerAddressesFeature());

  11:     }

  12:  

  13:     public void Dispose()

  14:     {

  15:         listener.Stop();

  16:     }

  17:  

  18:     public void Start(IHttpApplication application)

  19:     {

  20:         foreach (string address in this.Features.Get().Addresses)

  21:         {

  22:             listener.Prefixes.Add(address.TrimEnd('/') + "/");

  23:         }

  24:  

  25:         listener.Start();

  26:         while (true)

  27:         {

  28:             HttpListenerContext httpListenerContext = listener.GetContext();

  29:  

  30:             string listenUrl = this.Features.Get().Addresses.First(address => httpListenerContext.Request.Url.IsBaseOf(new Uri(address)));

  31:             string pathBase = new Uri(listenUrl).LocalPath.TrimEnd('/') ;

  32:             HttpListenerServerFeature feature = new HttpListenerServerFeature(httpListenerContext, pathBase);

  33:  

  34:             FeatureCollection features = new FeatureCollection();

  35:             features.Set(feature);

  36:             features.Set(feature);

  37:             TContext context = application.CreateContext(features);

  38:  

  39:             application.ProcessRequestAsync(context).ContinueWith(task =>

  40:             {

  41:                 httpListenerContext.Response.Close();

  42:                 application.DisposeContext(context, task.Exception);

  43:             });

  44:         }

  45:     }

  46: }

HttpListener的GetContext方法以同步的方式监听请求，并利用接收到的请求创建返回的HttpListenerContext对象。我们利用它解析出当前请求的基地址，并进一步创建出描述当前原始上下文的HttpListenerServerFeature。接下来我们将这个对象分别采用特性接口IHttpRequestFeature和IHttpResponseFeature添加到创建的FeatureCollection对象中。然后我们将这个FeatureCollection作为参数调用HttpApplication的CreateContext创建出上下文对象，并将其作为参数调用HttpApplication的ProcessContext方法让注册的中间件来逐个地对请求进行处理。