How to use Request.ServerVariables in Console Application

Question

Hi all Console Application: I want my console application to do this: 1) Request.ServerVariables(SCRIPT_NAME) 2) Server.Mappath(..) I don't know how to do this in a C# console application. Though I used the following to get the Path but I feel that is not what I wanted to do: Environment.CurrentDirectory Please help me on this. Thanks

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Another way of saying what John said is that a console application cannot execute in a web. There are at least two reasons for this; one is performance and the other is security. A console application executes in a separate process so if there was one console application for each ASP session there would be too many processes for the server. Note that statements such as Request.ServerVariables and Server.Mappath execute in the server not the client. As a result of executing in a separate process a console application executes with full privileges which means they can do much more in a system (the server) than any sane person would allow a web site to do. Note that for web sites the closest thing to a console application is Common Gateway Interface (CGI). It is old and archaic and not even supported for most webs but it is like a console application that executes in a web site.

John Penn · Answer

Server variables only apply to web applications. With a console application there is no web server.

Anupam Kakkar · Answer

I understand what you guys are saying and totally agree. Anyway I used app.config to configure the path so I can get the desired result. Thank you all