HttpSelfHostServer and HttpContext.Current

Question

I\'m working on a self-hosted ASP.NET web api-application. Everything works fine, but now I\'m struggling with HttpContext:

I need to save session-infor

Answer 1

To get around this problem (I find I am using a lot of components these days that need to work equally well in Web API and MVC), you can try this old shim I wrote to give you back an HttpContext-like interface that works in both flavours. It's on NuGet also, here's the source: Link on github (or Link on Nuget)

Answer 2

You won't be able to use HttpContext in a self-hosted environment. HttpContext is set by the ASP.Net pipeline, which you won't have if you don't run under IIS/ASP.Net.

The HttpContext is only available in the Web-Hosting mode, in which the HttpControllerHandler creates the request.

FYI- I invite you to read the following great articles from Pedro Felix to better understand the different hosting models:

• HTTP processing architecture overview
• Web-hosting
• Self-hosting