Am confused about web.config in .NET Core

Question

There are a bunch of contradictory statements about web.config and .NET Core.

• Places saying it\'s gone.
  • https://dotnetcore.show/episode-10-configuration-

Answer 1

This may be incorrect feel free to correct me but the way I understand it.

web.config was used to give some information to the hosting software like IIS some configuration details to help run the app correctly.

In dotnet core You have a layer between the hosting software like IIS and your Web App, and it's called Kestrel.

Kestrel is a proxy between the two. And the default web.config that you see, if you peek inside you will see default code which basically says, i'm a dotnet core app use the dotnet core runtime to run me. You can still put config there to tell IIS how to work, I specifically used it to increase the file upload size and windows authentication.

I would configure HTTP Headers using the middle ware.