Question

I have an IHttpHandler registered like this:

    <httpHandlers>
        <add verb="*" path="*" type="MindTouch.Dream.Http.HttpHandler, mindtouch.core"/>
    </httpHandlers>

Which catches /foo, /foo/bar, etc. just fine, but on / the Visual Studio built-in server does not hit hit either the HttpApplication or my handler.

Answer 1

That’s the way to do it. Your web server/site will have a setting which specifies the default document to serve for a directory. If not present or not set, the web server will attempt to serve either the directory listing which should be turned off for security, a security error if the listing is not available, or nothing.

So in your case prior to the default document existing, “/” was not actually making an application request.