C# NET HTTP.SYS web server

Question

I just need to create an extremely basic web server that will basically allow me to go to http://1.2.3.4:8080 and browse a list of files in C:\web or something.

I found this http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2006/07/playing-with-httpsys.html which looks perfect but I ran into a couple of questions.

1) When I replace the IP with * or + like the documentation says, I get access denied errors in system.dll. When I use localhost or my local IP it works fine. Why is this? I would like to potentially be able to bind it to a specific IP address on machines that have more than one.

2) I am probably missing something, but how do you specify the core directory where the files are that it is serving with this code?

Answer 1

re 1: because you dont have permissions to register this url. Use "http add urlacl2 to register permissions for your user (as admin) to make the binding. Example: http add urlacl url=http://+:8080/ user=DOMAIN\UserName

Re 2: You dont. THat is pretty much your code. Http.sys does not read from a file system - it is a driver. Your application must read the files and answer the request.