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How can I configure Cassini web server to accept requests to different hosts?

See duplicate: Customizing the cassini webserver

I have a web service hosted using Cassini web server. It works fine if I reference it by localhost, but when I use my machine's name (even using the browser locally), I get:

Server Error in '/' Application.
HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden.
Version Information: Cassini Web Server 1.0.40305.0

How can I configure it to accept all requests?

Solution

  • Cassini is specifically build to reject any outside connections. You could rebuild from sourcecode if you want it to accept outside connections.

    Edit:

    In reply to the below comment on what to edit in the sourcecode, you'd probably want to change the following in Server.cs on line 88:

    _socket = CreateSocketBindAndListen(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
             IPAddress.Loopback, _port);

    Into something like this:

    _socket = CreateSocketBindAndListen(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
             IPAddress.Any, _port);

    This will bind the listening socket to all available IP addresses on the system instead of only to the localhost address (127.0.0.1).