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Note: the issue referenced in this post has been fixed and will get released with ASP.NET Core 1.1.

BestASPNETHostingReview.com | Best and cheap ASP.NET Core 1.1 Hosting. In this post I will explain you to using ASP.NET Core’s middleware to modify response body. While creating a small piece of middleware to modify the response body’s content, sometimes we had trouble getting anything to appear in my browser. I would get a 200 response-code, but no content (i.e. Content-Length: 0). Here is an example that creates a similar setup:

Startup.cs

public class Startup
{
    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
    {
        app.Use(async (context, next) =>
        {
            var newContent = string.Empty;

            using (var newBody = new MemoryStream())
            {
                // We set the response body to our stream so we can read after the chain of middlewares have been called.
                context.Response.Body = newBody;

                await next();

                // Reset the body so nothing from the latter middlewares goes to the output.
                context.Response.Body = new MemoryStream();

                newBody.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

                // newContent will be `Hello`.
                newContent = new StreamReader(newBody).ReadToEnd();

                newContent += ", World!";

                // Send our modified content to the response body.
                await context.Response.WriteAsync(newContent);
            }
        });

        app.Map("", configuration =>
        {
            configuration.Use(async (context, next) =>
            {
                await context.Response.WriteAsync("Hello");
            });
        });
    }
}

public class Startup

{

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)

{

app.Use(async (context, next) =>

{

var newContent = string.Empty;

using (var newBody = new MemoryStream())

{

// We set the response body to our stream so we can read after the chain of middlewares have been called.

context.Response.Body = newBody;

await next();

// Reset the body so nothing from the latter middlewares goes to the output.

context.Response.Body = new MemoryStream();

newBody.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

// newContent will be `Hello`.

newContent = new StreamReader(newBody).ReadToEnd();

newContent += ", World!";

// Send our modified content to the response body.

await context.Response.WriteAsync(newContent);

}

});

app.Map("", configuration =>

{

configuration.Use(async (context, next) =>

{

await context.Response.WriteAsync("Hello");

});

}

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Initial response

curl -i http://localhost:54122/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Kestrel
X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?QzpcVXNlcnNcd2lsbGlhbS1ib2dhLWl2XERvY3VtZW50c1xwcm9qZWN0c1wxMGstYXBhcnRcc3JjXDEwa0FwYXJ0?=
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Content-Length: 0

curl -i http://localhost:54122/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Kestrel

X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?QzpcVXNlcnNcd2lsbGlhbS1ib2dhLWl2XERvY3VtZW50c1xwcm9qZWN0c1wxMGstYXBhcnRcc3JjXDEwa0FwYXJ0?=

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Content-Length: 0

Turns out this is a known issue and has an easy workaround which involves storing the original response stream and setting back to it after the middlewares are called:

Updated Startup.cs

public class Startup
{
    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
    {
        app.Use(async (context, next) =>
        {
            var newContent = string.Empty;

            // Store the "pre-modified" response stream.
            var existingBody = context.Response.Body;

            using (var newBody = new MemoryStream())
            {
                // Previous code removed for brevity.

                await next();

                // Set the stream back to the original.
                context.Response.Body = existingBody;

                newBody.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

                // Previous code removed for brevity.
            }
        });

        // Previous code removed for brevity.
    }
}

public class Startup

{

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)

{

app.Use(async (context, next) =>

{

var newContent = string.Empty;

// Store the "pre-modified" response stream.

var existingBody = context.Response.Body;

using (var newBody = new MemoryStream())

{

// Previous code removed for brevity.

await next();

// Set the stream back to the original.

context.Response.Body = existingBody;

newBody.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

// Previous code removed for brevity.

}

});

// Previous code removed for brevity.

}

New response

curl -i http://localhost:54122/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Kestrel
X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?QzpcVXNlcnNcd2lsbGlhbS1ib2dhLWl2XERvY3VtZW50c1xwcm9qZWN0c1wxMGstYXBhcnRcc3JjXDEwa0FwYXJ0?=
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Hello, World!

curl -i http://localhost:54122/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Server: Kestrel

X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?QzpcVXNlcnNcd2lsbGlhbS1ib2dhLWl2XERvY3VtZW50c1xwcm9qZWN0c1wxMGstYXBhcnRcc3JjXDEwa0FwYXJ0?=

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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:49:59 GMT

Hello, World!

I hope this article helpful for you, happy coding 🙂