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public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) 
{ 
    // Add service and create Policy with options 
    services.AddCors(options => 
    { 
        options.AddPolicy("CorsPolicy", 
            builder => builder.AllowAnyOrigin() 
            .AllowAnyMethod() 
            .AllowAnyHeader() 
            .AllowCredentials() ); 
    }); 
     
    // Make sure MVC is added AFTER CORS 
    services.AddMvc(); 
}

services.AddCors(options =>
{
    options.AddPolicy("AllowOrigin",
            builder => builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:55294")
                              .WithMethods("GET", "POST", "HEAD"));
});

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app) 
{ 
    // ... 
 
    app.UseCors("CorsPolicy"); 
     
    // ... 
     
    app.UseMvc(routes => 
    { 
        routes.MapRoute( 
            name: "default", 
            template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}"); 
    }); 
}

[EnableCors("CorsPolicy")]
public class MyApiController : Controller

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
      services.AddCors();
      services.AddMvc();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
    if (env.IsDevelopment())
    {
        app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
    }
 
    app.UseCors(policyBuilder =>
    {
        string[] origins = new string[] { "http://localhost:2000", "http://localhost:2001" };
 
        policyBuilder
            .AllowAnyHeader()
            .AllowAnyMethod()
            .WithOrigins(origins);
    });
 
    app.UseMvc();
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddCors(options =>
    {
        options.AddDefaultPolicy(
            builder =>
            {
            builder
                .AllowAnyOrigin()
                .AllowAnyMethod()
                .AllowAnyHeader();
            });
          options.AddPolicy("MyCORSPolicy",
            builder =>
            {
                builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:49373")
                                    .AllowAnyHeader()
                                    .AllowAnyMethod();
            });
     });
    services.AddMvc().AddNewtonsoftJson();
}

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'http://localhost:22135/chat/negotiate?jwt=<removed the jwt key>' 
from origin 'http://localhost:53150' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: 
The value of the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' when the request's credentials mode is 'include'. 
The credentials mode of requests initiated by the XMLHttpRequest is controlled by the withCredentials attribute.

services.AddCors(options =>
{
     options.AddPolicy("AllowAllOrigins",
         builder =>
          {
              builder
                 .AllowAnyOrigin()
                 .AllowAnyHeader()
                 .AllowAnyMethod()
                 .AllowCredentials();
          });
    });

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('get', 'http://www.example.com/api/test');
xhr.withCredentials = true;

//In jQuery:
$.ajax({
  type: 'get',
  url: 'http://www.example.com/home',
  xhrFields: {
    withCredentials: true
}

//ES6 fetch API:
fetch(
   'http://remote-url.com/users',
   {
     'PUT',
     headers: {
          'Accept': 'application/json',
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
     },
     mode: 'cors',
     credentials: 'include',
     body: JSON.stringify(body)
   }
)
.then((response) => response.json())
.then((response) => console.log(response))
.catch((error) => console.error(error));

[EnableCors(origins: "http://MyWebsite.com", headers: "*", methods: "*")]
//is not the same as this:
[EnableCors(origins:"http://mywebsite.com", headers: "*", methods: "*")]

<form method="post" action="submit" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <div>
    <input name="files" id="files" type="file" />    
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="k-button" />
  </div>
</form>
<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
     $("#files").kendoUpload();
  });
</script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#files").kendoUpload({
                name: "files",
                async: { // async configuration
                    saveUrl: "@Url.Action("Save", "Home")", // the url to save a file is '/save'
                    removeUrl: "@Url.Action("Remove", "Home")", // the url to remove a file is '/remove'
                    autoUpload: false, // automatically upload files once selected
                    removeVerb: 'POST'
                },
                multiple: true,
                showFileList: true
            }); 
        });
    </script>

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Save(IEnumerable<HttpPostedFileBase> files)
        {
            if (files != null)
            {
                // ...
                // Process the files and save them
                // ...
            }

            // Return an empty string to signify success
            return Content("");
        }

        [HttpPost]
        public ContentResult Remove(string[] fileNames)
        {
            if (fileNames != null)
            {
                foreach (var fullName in fileNames)
                {
                    // ...
                    // delete the files
                    // ...
                }
            }

            // Return an empty string to signify success
            return Content("");
        }

<!-- Content Type with wildcard.  All Images -->
<input type="file" id="demoFile" title="Select file" accept="image/*" />
 
<!-- List of file extensions -->
<input type="file" id="demoFile" title="Select file" accept=".jpg,.png,.gif" />
 
<!-- Any combination of the above -->
<input type="file" id="demoFile" title="Select file" accept="audio/*,application/pdf,.png" />

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#files").kendoUpload({
                name: "files",
                async: {
                 //...
                },
                //...
                localization: {
                    select: 'انتخاب فایل‌ها برای ارسال',
                    remove: 'حذف فایل',
                    retry: 'سعی مجدد',
                    headerStatusUploading: 'در حال ارسال فایل‌ها',
                    headerStatusUploaded: 'پایان ارسال',
                    cancel: "لغو",
                    uploadSelectedFiles: "ارسال فایل‌ها",
                    dropFilesHere: "فایل‌ها را برای ارسال، کشیده و در اینجا رها کنید",
                    statusUploading: "در حال ارسال",
                    statusUploaded: "ارسال شد",
                    statusWarning: "اخطار",
                    statusFailed: "خطا در ارسال"
                }
            });
        });
    </script>

    <script id="fileListTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
        <li class='k-file'>
            <span class='k-progress'></span>
            <span class='k-icon'></span>
            <span class='k-filename' title='#=name#'>#=name# (#=size# bytes)</span>
            <strong class='k-upload-status'></strong>
        </li>
    </script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#files").kendoUpload({
                name: "files",
                async: {
                // ...
                },
                // ...
                template: kendo.template($('#fileListTemplate').html()),
                // ...
            });
        });
    </script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#files").kendoUpload({
                name: "files",
                async: { // async configuration
                //...
                },
                //...
                localization: {
                },
                cancel: function () {
                    console.log('Cancel Event.');
                },
                complete: function () {
                    console.log('Complete Event.');
                },
                error: function () {
                    console.log('Error uploading file.');
                },
                progress: function (e) {
                    console.log('Uploading file ' + e.percentComplete);
                },
                remove: function () {
                    console.log('File removed.');
                },
                select: function () {
                    console.log('File selected.');
                },
                success: function () {
                    console.log('Upload successful.');
                },
                upload: function (e) {
                    console.log('Upload started.');
                }
            }); 
        });
    </script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#files").kendoUpload({
                name: "files",
                async: {
                //...
                },
                //...
                localization: {
                },
                upload: function (e) {
                    console.log('Upload started.');
                    // Sending metadata to the save action
                    e.data = {
                        codeId: "1234567",
                        param2: 12
                        //, ...
                    };
                }
            });
        });
    </script>

   [HttpPost]
  public ActionResult Save(IEnumerable<HttpPostedFileBase> files, string codeId)

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#files").kendoUpload({
                name: "files",
                async: {
                    // ....
                    batch: true
                },
            });
        });
    </script>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <!-- The request length is in kilobytes, execution timeout is in seconds  -->
    <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="10240" executionTimeout="120" />
  </system.web>

  <system.webServer>
    <security>
      <requestFiltering>
        <!-- The content length is in bytes  -->
        <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="10485760"/>
      </requestFiltering>
    </security>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

var $table = $('#browsers-grid');
$table.dataTable({
      "bServerSide": true,
      "sAjaxSource": "/Home/GetBrowsers"
 });

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/// <summary>
/// Class that encapsulates most common parameters sent by DataTables plugin
/// </summary>
public class jQueryDataTableParamModel
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Request sequence number sent by DataTable,
    /// same value must be returned in response
    /// </summary>
    public string sEcho { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Text used for filtering
    /// </summary>
    public string sSearch { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Number of records that should be shown in table
    /// </summary>
    public int iDisplayLength { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// First record that should be shown(used for paging)
    /// </summary>
    public int iDisplayStart { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Number of columns in table
    /// </summary>
    public int iColumns { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Number of columns that are used in sorting
    /// /// </summary>
    public int iSortingCols { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Comma separated list of column names
    /// </summary>
    public string sColumns { get; set; }
}

public JsonResult GetBrowsers(jQueryDataTableParamModel param)
{
        IQueryable<Browser> allBrowsers = new Browsers().CreateInMemoryDataSource().AsQueryable();

        IEnumerable<Browser> filteredBrowsers;

        // Apply Filtering
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(param.sSearch))
        {
                filteredBrowsers = new Browsers().CreateInMemoryDataSource()
                    .Where(x => x.Engine.Contains(param.sSearch)
                                       || x.Grade.Contains(param.sSearch)
                                       || x.Name.Contains(param.sSearch)
                                       || x.Platform.Contains(param.sSearch)
                    ).ToList();
                float f;
                if (float.TryParse(param.sSearch, out f))
                {
                    filteredBrowsers = filteredBrowsers.Where(x => x.Version.Equals(f));
                }
        }
        else
        {
                filteredBrowsers = allBrowsers;
        }

        // Apply Sorting
        var sortColumnIndex = Convert.ToInt32(Request["iSortCol_0"]);
        Func<Browser, string> orderingFunction = (x => sortColumnIndex == 0 ? x.Engine :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 1 ? x.Name :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 2 ? x.Platform :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 3 ? x.Version.ToString() :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 4 ? x.Grade :
                                                                x.Name);

        var sortDirection = Request["sSortDir_0"]; // asc or desc
        filteredBrowsers = sortDirection == "asc" ? filteredBrowsers.OrderBy(orderingFunction) : filteredBrowsers.OrderByDescending(orderingFunction);

        // Apply Paging
        var enumerable = filteredBrowsers.ToArray();
        IEnumerable<Browser> displayedBrowsers = enumerable.Skip(param.iDisplayStart).
                Take(param.iDisplayLength).ToList();

        return Json(new
        {
                sEcho = param.sEcho,
                iTotalRecords = allBrowsers.Count(),
                iTotalDisplayRecords = enumerable.Count(),
                aaData = displayedBrowsers
        }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

$(function () {
        var $table = $('#browsers-grid');
        $table.dataTable({
                "bProcessing": true,
                "bStateSave": true,
                "bServerSide": true,
                "bFilter": true,
                "sDom": 'T<"clear">lftipr',
                "aLengthMenu": [[5, 10, 25, 50, -1], [5, 10, 25, 50, "All"]],
                "bAutoWidth": false,
                "sAjaxSource": "/Home/GetBrowsers",
                "fnServerData": function (sSource, aoData, fnCallback) {
                    $.ajax({
                        "dataType": 'json',
                        "type": "POST",
                        "url": sSource,
                        "data": aoData,
                        "success": fnCallback
                    });
                },
                "aoColumns": [
                    { "mDataProp": "Engine" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Name" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Platform" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Version" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Grade" }
                ],
                "oLanguage": {
                        "sUrl": "/Content/dataTables.persian.txt"
                }
        });
});

app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "areas",
        template: "{area:exists}/{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
 
    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "default",
        template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}"); 
});

[Area("Blog")]
public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public IActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

 [Route("[area]/app/[controller]/actions/[action]/{id:weekday?}")]

 @addTagHelper *, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers

 @{
 Layout = "_Layout";
}

 @{
 Layout = "~/Areas/Blog/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

 <a asp-action="Index" asp-controller="Home">Link</a>

 <a asp-area="Services" asp-controller="Home" asp-action="Index">Go to Services’ Home Page</a>

 <a asp-action="Index" asp-controller="Home" asp-area="">Link</a>

"publishOptions": {
     "include": [
       "Areas/**/*.cshtml",
       ....
       ....
     ]

using(var client = new HttpClient())
{
   // do something with http client
}

 Unable to connect to the remote server
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.

using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
       var result = await client.GetAsync("http://example.com/");
}

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
      using (var client = new HttpClient())
      {
            var result = await client.GetAsync("http://example.com/");
            Console.WriteLine(result.StatusCode);
      }
}

  TCP    192.168.1.6:13996      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:13997      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:13998      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:13999      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:14000      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:14001      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:14002      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:14003      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:14004      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.6:14005      93.184.216.34:http     TIME_WAIT

 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay]

CancelPendingRequests
DeleteAsync
GetAsync
GetByteArrayAsync
GetStreamAsync
GetStringAsync
PostAsync
PutAsync
SendAsync

BaseAddress
DefaultRequestHeaders
MaxResponseContentBufferSize
Timeout

var sp = ServicePointManager.FindServicePoint(new Uri("http://thisisasample.com"));
sp.ConnectionLeaseTimeout = 60*1000; //In milliseconds

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;

namespace HttpClientTips
{
    public interface IHttpClientFactory : IDisposable
    {
        HttpClient GetOrCreate(
            Uri baseAddress,
            IDictionary<string, string> defaultRequestHeaders = null,
            TimeSpan? timeout = null,
            long? maxResponseContentBufferSize = null,
            HttpMessageHandler handler = null);
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading;

namespace HttpClientTips
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Lifetime of this class should be set to `Singleton`.
    /// </summary>
    public class HttpClientFactory : IHttpClientFactory
    {
        // 'GetOrAdd' call on the dictionary is not thread safe and we might end up creating the HttpClient more than
        // once. To prevent this Lazy<> is used. In the worst case multiple Lazy<> objects are created for multiple
        // threads but only one of the objects succeeds in creating the HttpClient.
        private readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Uri, Lazy<HttpClient>> _httpClients =
                         new ConcurrentDictionary<Uri, Lazy<HttpClient>>();
        private const int ConnectionLeaseTimeout = 60 * 1000; // 1 minute

        public HttpClientFactory()
        {
            // Default is 2 minutes: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.servicepointmanager.dnsrefreshtimeout(v=vs.110).aspx
            ServicePointManager.DnsRefreshTimeout = (int)TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1).TotalMilliseconds;
            // Increases the concurrent outbound connections
            ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit = 1024;
        }

        public HttpClient GetOrCreate(
           Uri baseAddress,
           IDictionary<string, string> defaultRequestHeaders = null,
           TimeSpan? timeout = null,
           long? maxResponseContentBufferSize = null,
           HttpMessageHandler handler = null)
        {
            return _httpClients.GetOrAdd(baseAddress,
                             uri => new Lazy<HttpClient>(() =>
                             {
                                 // Reusing a single HttpClient instance across a multi-threaded application means
                                 // you can't change the values of the stateful properties (which are not thread safe),
                                 // like BaseAddress, DefaultRequestHeaders, MaxResponseContentBufferSize and Timeout.
                                 // So you can only use them if they are constant across your application and need their own instance if being varied.
                                 var client = handler == null ? new HttpClient { BaseAddress = baseAddress } :
                                               new HttpClient(handler, disposeHandler: false) { BaseAddress = baseAddress };
                                 setRequestTimeout(timeout, client);
                                 setMaxResponseBufferSize(maxResponseContentBufferSize, client);
                                 setDefaultHeaders(defaultRequestHeaders, client);
                                 setConnectionLeaseTimeout(baseAddress, client);
                                 return client;
                             },
                             LazyThreadSafetyMode.ExecutionAndPublication)).Value;
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            foreach (var httpClient in _httpClients.Values)
            {
                httpClient.Value.Dispose();
            }
        }

        private static void setConnectionLeaseTimeout(Uri baseAddress, HttpClient client)
        {
            // This ensures connections are used efficiently but not indefinitely.
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.ConnectionClose = false; // keeps the connection open -> more efficient use of the client
            ServicePointManager.FindServicePoint(baseAddress).ConnectionLeaseTimeout = ConnectionLeaseTimeout; // ensures connections are not used indefinitely.
        }

        private static void setDefaultHeaders(IDictionary<string, string> defaultRequestHeaders, HttpClient client)
        {
            if (defaultRequestHeaders == null)
            {
                return;
            }
            foreach (var item in defaultRequestHeaders)
            {
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add(item.Key, item.Value);
            }
        }

        private static void setMaxResponseBufferSize(long? maxResponseContentBufferSize, HttpClient client)
        {
            if (maxResponseContentBufferSize.HasValue)
            {
                client.MaxResponseContentBufferSize = maxResponseContentBufferSize.Value;
            }
        }

        private static void setRequestTimeout(TimeSpan? timeout, HttpClient client)
        {
            if (timeout.HasValue)
            {
                client.Timeout = timeout.Value;
            }
        }
    }
}

namespace HttpClientTips.Web
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddSingleton<IHttpClientFactory, HttpClientFactory>();
            services.AddMvc();
        }

namespace HttpClientTips.Web.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        private readonly IHttpClientFactory _httpClientFactory;
        public HomeController(IHttpClientFactory httpClientFactory)
        {
            _httpClientFactory = httpClientFactory;
        }

        public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
        {
            var host = new Uri("http://localhost:5000");
            var httpClient = _httpClientFactory.GetOrCreate(host);
            var responseMessage = await httpClient.GetAsync("home/about").ConfigureAwait(false);
            var responseContent = await responseMessage.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
            return Content(responseContent);
        }

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