If you’re here from the future and trying to handle multiple concurrent requests with a single thread using async/await..
public async Task Listen(string prefix, int maxConcurrentRequests, CancellationToken token)
{
HttpListener listener = new HttpListener();
listener.Prefixes.Add(prefix);
listener.Start();
var requests = new HashSet<Task>();
for(int i=0; i < maxConcurrentRequests; i++)
requests.Add(listener.GetContextAsync());
while (!token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
Task t = await Task.WhenAny(requests);
requests.Remove(t);
if (t is Task<HttpListenerContext>)
{
var context = (t as Task<HttpListenerContext>).Result;
requests.Add(ProcessRequestAsync(context));
requests.Add(listener.GetContextAsync());
}
}
}
public async Task ProcessRequestAsync(HttpListenerContext context)
{
...do stuff...
}