Question

Background – I can get HttpListener working fine for HTTP traffic. I’m having trouble with HTTPS traffic however.

QUESTION: How can I change the code below so that a browser request to a “https” URL will actually be picked up by my HttpListener?

Notes – At the moment with firefox’s proxy settings set to “localhost:8080”, when I listen to traffic on port 8080 (“https://*:8080/”), and I enter a HTTPS url in firefox, I am getting no traffic being picked up? (when I listen to just http and enter normal http url’s it works fine)

  _httpListener = new HttpListener();
  _httpListener.Prefixes.Add("https://*:8080/");
  _httpListener.Start();

thanks

Answer 1

From MSDN

If you create an HttpListener using
https, you must select a Server
Certificate for that listener.
Otherwise, an HttpWebRequest query of
this HttpListener will fail with an
unexpected close of the connection.

You can configure Server Certificates
and other listener options by using
HttpCfg.exe. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/http/http/httpcfg_exe.asp
for more details. The executable is
shipped with Windows Server 2003, or
can be built from source code
available in the Platform SDK.

Not sure 100% though…