HTTP 2.0

HttpClient

This enables primitive operations for sending HTTP requests and receiving HTTP responses from a resource identified by a URI.

HttpRequestMessage

This represents the HTTP request message from a client.

HttpResponseMessage

This represents the HTTP response message received from an HTTP request.

HttpContent

This is a base class that represents an HTTP entity body and any content headers.

HttpMessageHandler

This is the base type for all message handlers and this will be used to define all message handlers. Message handlers may be used to create server-side or client-side handlers.

The server-side handler works with the hosted model chain and handles incoming client requests (HttpServer and HttpSelfHostServer). It determines the correct route for the request (HttpRoutingDispatcher) and dispatches the request to the controller (HttpControllerDispatcher).

The HttpClient type uses client-side message handlers to process requests. The default handler HttpClientHandler is responsible to send the request and get the response from the server.

We may, of course, hook our custom controllers in the pipelines, for example, to validate, modify, or log the requests.