在C＃中解析原始HTTP-还是更好的选择？

Question

I have a raw socket I want to make HTTP requests over. I would like to get back nicely-parsed-for-me http responses. Ideally I could feed this raw socket to HttpClient - something in a standard library. "TheWrapperClass" around the socket would allow me to use higher level instructions like again - the ones from HttpClient/HttpClientHandler like : clientHandler.ClientCertificates or clientHandler.Credentials etc.

Something like this maybe?:

HttpClientHandler clientHandler = new HttpClientHandler();
clientHandler.SocketFactory = mySocket/FactoryGoesHere???
HttpClient client = new HttpClient(new CustomMessageHandler());
var resp = await client.GetAsync("http://whatever");

I'm thinking of something like SSLSocketFactory from Java - is there an equivalent of this in .NET that I just haven't found yet?

At the end of the day - I really only want to have a library to invoke that writes HTTP to the wire easily and reads HTTP from the wire easily. If I had that I don't need HttpClient. Alternatively I need a way to use HttpClient to send bytes down the socket I give the class.

Edit: I tried using a HttpMessageHandler but the HttpRespons is one that I hand craft. I need something that reads a stream and parses the http for me.

Answer 1

If you don't have a need for executing JavaScript, SimpleBrowser might fit for you: https://github.com/SimpleBrowserDotNet/SimpleBrowser

It will not expose a raw socket for you to use as a bi-directional stream, but it will allow you to navigate via HTTP and receive an HTTP response. The HTTP response can either be the raw text response from the web server, or an parsed XML (XHTML) document.