ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

We'll create a new project and write our first middleware. We can observe the execution mechanism of middleware with this project.

1. First, let's watch the anatomy of an HTTP handler:

public class MyHttpHandler : IHttpHandler 
{ 
  public bool IsReusable {  get {  return false;   }  } 
 
  public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) 
  { 
    context.Response.Write("This page pass by MyHttpHandler <br />"); 
  } 
} 

2. Now, let's see the Web.config configuration:

<system.webServer> 
    <handlers> 
      <add name="MyReportHandler" verb="*" path="*.report" type="MyApp.HttpHandlers.MyReportHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" /> 
    </handlers> 
</system.webServer> 

We had to specify a name, the authorized HTTP verbs for this Handler, the path, which is the named ...