Building e-Commerce Sites with the .NET Framework

HttpContext

The core of the ASP.NET object model starts with the HttpContext object. This object encapsulates all the information related to an HTTP request and is used by the Web server to process requests. HttpContext also provides access to all other high-level objects commonly used to implement ASP.NET applications. Table C.1 shows some of the more important properties and methods available from the HttpContext object.

Table C.1. HttpContext Properties and Methods

Name	Description
	Properties
Application	Returns HttpApplicationState object reference
Cache	Returns a reference to the Cache object
Error	Returns a reference to an Exception object if an error was thrown during the processing of the last request
Items	Returns a reference to a key-value ...