owin self hosting using soket with web api

Asked Feb 28 '18 at 07:36

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I want to open webSocket by web api post request. I tryed to use HttpContext.Current.AcceptWebSocketRequest but it didn't work (as you can see in the following example) because HttpContext.Current is null in self host.

public class ChatController : ApiController
{
    public HttpResponseMessage Get(string username)
    {
        HttpContext.Current.AcceptWebSocketRequest(new ChatWebSocketHandler(username));
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.SwitchingProtocols);
    }
}

Is there a way to get the current http context without IIS? Or what is the best way to open websocket?

asked Feb 28 '18 at 07:36

Bill Newton

Host SignalR for WebSockets can be a simpler option. – Lex Li Mar 01 '18 at 01:08
I try to use SignalR, but I had trouble with streaming data to specific user and not to all hub users – Bill Newton Mar 01 '18 at 06:04
SignalR of course supports streaming to a single user, but that would be a new question. – Lex Li Mar 01 '18 at 13:12
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22598567/cant-find-request-getowincontext to get the OwinContext and then accept the WebSocket. – Tratcher Mar 07 '18 at 04:10
@Tratcher so how do we accept WebSocketRequest from OwinContext? – Ernis May 18 '18 at 13:07
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41848095/websockets-using-owin – Tratcher May 18 '18 at 16:37

owin self hosting using soket with web api

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