Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference, 2nd Edition

Chapter 12. The HTTP Request Context

In this chapter:
Initialization of the Application
The global.asax File
The HttpContext Class
The Server Object
The HttpResponse Object
The HttpRequest Object
Conclusion

Various steps are involved in having the ASP.NET worker process serve an incoming HTTP request. The request is assigned to the aspnet_isapi.dll ISAPI extension which, in turn, hands it over to the HTTP runtime pipeline. The entry point in the ASP.NET pipeline is the HttpRuntime class. A new instance of this class is created for each request, governs its overall execution, and generates the response text for the browser. Upon instantiation, the HttpRuntime class performs a number of initialization tasks, the first of which is the creation of ...