Handling multiple requests with C# HttpListener

Question

I have a .NET Windows Service which spawns a thread that basically just acts as an HttpListener. This is working fine in synchronous mode example...

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Answer 1

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();
    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)
        {
            var context = (t as Task).Result;
            requests.Add(ProcessRequestAsync(context));
            requests.Add(listener.GetContextAsync());
        }
    }
}

public async Task ProcessRequestAsync(HttpListenerContext context)
{
    ...do stuff...
}