Embedded Webserver

Embedded Webserver is a small footprint, multi-platform webserver implementation exposing IIS-like API to web enable your hobby project in four easy steps:

1. Add reference to EmbeddedWebserver.dll
2. Create a Webserver instance with the appropriate configuration (config.ini, or EmbeddedWebapplicationConfiguration instance)
3. Register handlers and modules specific to your needs
4. Call the StartListening method and test with a browser

Features

• Flexible, IIS-like API (handlers, modules, web application, configuration file, url mapping, request pipeline, directory browsing etc.)
• Http request parser (method, url, headers, query string, body)
• Http response compilation
• Buffered / streamed response content options
• Basic security options (through requestfiltermodule)
• Built-in diagnostic page
• Supports .NET Micro Framework 4.1, .NET Framework 4 Client Profile and .NET Framework 4

The Embedded Webserver is a good choice for small-scale hobby projects, where an easy web interface can greatly improve user experience or overall usability. Since the Netduino rapid prototyping platform http://netduino.com/ is the main target, the entire code base is organized around its limitations.

UPDATE: tested with actual Netduino Plus hardware, it totally rocks!

In action

• Built-in diagnostic page

• Custom handler output

• Directory browsing

Known limitations

• Will not support request headers over 1k
• Http implementation is not fully rfc http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html compliant
• Url / Html encode / decode functions are far from complete, they cover the most basic scenarios