Question

I’m trying to learn about HttpContext, Request and Response. What are some good resources? I’m especially interested in links to tutorials (basic things).

thanks
saj

Answer 1

If you are referring to HttpContext in ASP.Net, it is a key object that exposes the underlying Request (incoming messages) and Response (outgoing message) streams. At a low level, this object is populated by IIS and the ASP.Net framework.

This means that HttpContext is available to any business object running inside of a .Net web application (not just an ASPX page, ASCX, etc).

HttpContext.Current provides access to Request, Response, Session, Cache, and more.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpcontext.aspx

For HTTP basics such as Request and Response, see the links that Younes provided.