Custom HttpHandlers and different handler types.

Question

All literature I see on creating custom handlers deals with associating an extension with a handler, e.g. if I wanted a handler for Ajax requests, I could implement the IHttHandler interface in an AjaxHandler class.

Now, to have individual instances of AjaxHandlers, e.g. DocAjaxHander, PersonAjaxHandler etc. how would I derive the base AJAX handling of my AjaxHandler class without registering each individual *.ajax page?

Answer 1

You can automatically handle AJAX request in a number of ways. Here's how to do it with a web service:

http://www.asp.net/AJAX/Documentation/Live/Tutorials/ConsumingWebServicesWithAJAXTutorial.aspx

Answer 2

Well, one way to do it would be via query string params...