Have you ever wanted to embed an HTTP server into your application? For example let's say you have a Windows service that you want to administer or monitor (Google desktop is a good example of this). Or let's say you have an application that requires an alternate interface such a kiosk application. Wouldn't it be great to have an embedded HTTP server that would allow you to provide a web interface for your application without requiring IIS and without requiring you to write a web server? If so then Lomez is your friend!

Lomez is an in-process HTTP server that allows you to create virtual directories, serve static content from a file or embedded resource and expose any object by implementing the HTTPHandler interface. It loosely resembles ASP.NET to allow you to use it with ease.

Ok, enough of the spiel... Basically I have a number of applications I work with that I would love to have HTTP access to, especially Windows services. I have looked high and low but have not found a library to allow me to do this. So at that point I figured I would have to develop something myself and Lomez was born. I have successfully used this library in a production kiosk framework (At 2 tradeshows so far) and it has worked like a champ. The current version of the library can be found here. I would love to hear any feedback you might have on it.

I consider the current version more of a proof of concept and would really like to rewrite it from the ground up. So hopefully I can begin doing that soon. I would really like to include basic authentication, challenge/response and SSL in the next version. I would also like to optimize the HTTP pipeline so it is lean -n- mean. It's definitely not right now.

Anyways, if you end up on this page because you are looking for an in-process HTTP server for .NET please let me know your thoughts. And if you decide to use the library, let me know what you think of it.

Thanks!

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