Question

I am having problems trying to map an HttpHandler in the web.config.

This is the relevant config bit:

<httpHandlers>
  <add verb="*" path="*.hndlr" type="MyAssembly.MyHandler, MyAssembly" validate="false" />
</httpHandlers>

When I navigate to http://localhost/myApp/whatever.hndlr I am getting a server error 404 (not found).

It’s the 1st time I am hooking up an HttpHandler so I might be missing something – any help appreciated!

UPDATE:

I managed to get it working using both answers so far – who’s able to explain why it works gets the answer marked!

This is my config (won’t work if you don’t have both – I am running IIS7 in classic mode)

System.web:

<httpHandlers>
    <add verb="*" path="*MyHandler.hndlr" type="MyAssembly.MyAssemblyHandler, MyAssembly" validate="false"/>
</httpHandlers>

System.webserver:

<handlers>
    <add name="MyHandler" verb="*" path="*MyHandler.hndlr" type="MyAssembly.MyAssemblyHandler, MyAssembly" validate="false" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script"/>
</handlers>

Answer 1

Are you using IIS7, if so is the application pool running in classic or pipelined mode? If it is IIS7 in pipelined mode then the handler reference needs to go into the following section

<system.webServer>
    <handlers>
    </handlers>
<system.webServer>

rather than in the following section.

<system.web>
    <httpHandlers>
    </httpHandlers>
</system.web>