Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - Posts

Creating lightweight web sites with HttpHeaders

It been a long old while since last blog entry, and I felt it was long past time to make one! 

Asp.net was my chosen backend quite a while back but as time when on and as I used it with more intensive GUI web applications I became to like it less and less.  It wasn;t the codebehind that I disliked, in fact C# is a dream to write in, it was html content it generated.  I understand why it had to do certain things to attain a greater modularity and appeal to a larger number of developers.  With time I came choose Web Services as the my main means of comunication with the server as you had greater control over the content rendered. 

Until, this is, I wanted to create a simple web site with some server logic using C#.  I was going to use Web services to return xhtml content-type but as someone suggested "thats like used an SUV on a go-kart track!".  So I used HttpHeaders, that let me define my own extention and process them as I wish the content returned is exactaly as I wanted. 

So I decided to create a simple javascript reference site based on my httpheaders.

http://km0ti0n.blunted.co.uk

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