Reading portions of the web.config file

[Jeremy Chapman]

Is there any way, from a web application to programatically access the
httpHandlers section in the applications web.config file? Specifically I
want find, at run time, the value of the path variable in the "<add
vert=...." line.

<httpHandlers>

<add verb="POST,GET" path="test/*.ashx" type="MyAssembly.MyClass, Test" />

</httpHandlers>

[John Timney \(ASP.NET MVP\)]

The file is xml, so you can read through it like any xml file using xpath.

http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=154

You could easily cheat by having an appsettings value with it in and read
that instead.

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Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

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Is there any way, from a web application to programatically access the
httpHandlers section in the applications web.config file? Specifically I
want find, at run time, the value of the path variable in the "<add
vert=...." line.

<httpHandlers>

<add verb="POST,GET" path="test/*.ashx" type="MyAssembly.MyClass, Test" />

</httpHandlers>