Moved the http server to it's own assembly. added comments and made other minor re-organizations.

MediaBrowser.Net/Handlers/BaseHandler.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Collections.Specialized;
+using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
+
+namespace MediaBrowser.Net.Handlers
+{
+    public abstract class BaseHandler
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Response headers
+        /// </summary>
+        public IDictionary<string, string> Headers = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The action to write the response to the output stream
+        /// </summary>
+        public Action<Stream> WriteStream { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The original RequestContext
+        /// </summary>
+        public RequestContext RequestContext { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The original QueryString
+        /// </summary>
+        protected NameValueCollection QueryString
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return RequestContext.Request.QueryString;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the MIME type to include in the response headers
+        /// </summary>
+        public abstract string ContentType { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the status code to include in the response headers
+        /// </summary>
+        public virtual int StatusCode
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return 200;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the cache duration to include in the response headers
+        /// </summary>
+        public virtual TimeSpan CacheDuration
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return TimeSpan.FromTicks(0);
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the last date modified of the content being returned, if this can be determined.
+        /// This will be used to invalidate the cache, so it's not needed if CacheDuration is 0.
+        /// </summary>
+        public virtual DateTime? LastDateModified
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
+
+        public virtual bool GzipResponse
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        public BaseHandler()
+        {
+            WriteStream = s =>
+            {
+                WriteReponse(s);
+                s.Close();
+            };
+        }
+
+        private void WriteReponse(Stream stream)
+        {
+            if (GzipResponse)
+            {
+                using (GZipStream gzipStream = new GZipStream(stream, CompressionMode.Compress, false))
+                {
+                    WriteResponseToOutputStream(gzipStream);
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                WriteResponseToOutputStream(stream);
+            }
+        }
+
+        protected abstract void WriteResponseToOutputStream(Stream stream);
+
+    }
+}